Vocabulary
All citizens share in running the government
Democracy
Type of government
Oligarchy
Difference of the Athenian Education between girls and boys
educated males, studied arithmetic, geometry, drawing, music, public speaking,
girls were educated by mothers: spinning weaving, household duties,
Who was Solon
poet, lawmaker, leader who solved problems of the farmers
Someone who seizes power and rules with total authority
Tyrant
Assembly included these people
all male citizens above age 30
sell themselves into slavery
Wealthy people were no happy with Solon: True or False
True
Oligarchy
Some facts about the strict government of Sparta
any: stability, discouraged free thinking, did not welcome foreign visitors, discouraged people from studying literature and the arts, resisted change, remained poor
Location of Athens
Northeast of Sparta, two-day trip
lottery system or election? why
lottery: election could be unfair
enslaved laborers of Spartans
Helots
Some facts about the military
well trained, powerful strong, defended Greece against invaders, discipline, harsh treatment
Athens was founded by the descendants of the
Mycenaeans
Who took over after the death of Pesistratus
Cleisthenes
Five people elected by the council to enforce laws
Ephors
location of Sparta
Peloponnesus Peninsula in southern Greece
A tyrant divided large estates among farmers who had no land, hired the poor to construct temples and other public works, built shrines, worshipped Athena
Peisistratus
a relative of Solon
Peisistratus