Friday, March 8, 2019

warring city states


  • Vocab
  • polis: fundamental political unit, made up of a city and the surrounding countryside
  • monarchy: rule by a single person (a king in Greece)
  • aristocracy: rule by a small group of noble, very rich, landowning families
  • oligarchy: wealthy groups, dissatisfied with aristocratic rule, who seized power (often with military help)
  • tyrant: powerful individual who seized control by appealing to the common people for support
  • Draco (621 BCE)
  • all Athenians are equal under the law
  • death is the punishment for many crimes
  • debt slavery is allowed
  • Solon (594 BCE)
  • outlaws debt slavery
  • all Athenian citizens can speak at the assembly
  • any citizen can press charges against wrongdoers
  • arranged social classes
  • Cleisthenes (500 BCE)
  • allowed all citizens to submit laws for debate at the assembly
  • created the Council of Five Hundred
  • 10 groups formed by wealth
  • only free adult male property owners born in Athens were considered citizens
  • women slaves were considered “foreigners”
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