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This term refers to something from a time more than 2500 years ago.
What is ancient?
This tells what the map is about.
What is the title?
This group of people who were considered the top of the social structure, with them becoming one at 20 years of age.
What are citizens?
To show a sign of victory they attached this item to the family door for a boy being born.
What is an olive branch?
When it came to voting rights, this gender was denied voting rights.
What are women?
One way to learn about the past is to study this. These can be writings and objects that are created by people living at a certain time.
What are primary sources?
This took place 40 times a year, that is every 8 to 10 days. This is where decisions were made on big and small issues like treaties, religion, and taxes.
What is the Assembly?
This was the full-time government of Athens and only lasted one year.
What is the Council of 500?
This is a government official who works for the court and were chosen by lottery.
What is magistrate?
The people who could be a part of the assembly.
What are male citizens?
This shows north, south, east, and west on a map.
What is compass rose?
These people were born outside the city-state and were not allowed to own land.
What were metics?
When boys turned seven, they left the household to go here.
What is school?
Athenians believed that this process during voting was the most important, where the vote was supported by more than half the voters.
What is majority rule?
In Ancient Athens, these objects were primary sources that depicted pictures of what was happening in Ancient Greece. The objects were used for a number of things.
What are vases?
The Assembly would meet at a large open area at the top of a hill to hear speeches, debate, listen, discuss, and finally vote.
What is the Pynx?
This was a political group in Athens. They were divided into 10 of them with 50 members from each political group.
What is a tribe?
This is the person who is accused of a crime in a court case.
What is defendant?
The large, open area in the middle of the city, filled with market stalls where men could talk and shop.
What is the agora?
The development of Ancient Greece through this time period.
What is BCE or Before the Common Era?
These were owned by the city-state or privately. Some had been taken prisoner when their city-state was attacked by Athenians.
What were slaves?
Boys in school learned these long poems telling a story about a legendary hero.
What are epics?
Athenians believed that if you committed an act against the Assembly they would lose this.
What is citizenship?
Pericles, a government statesman, was excellent example of a persuasive speaker that could be influential. He held this persuasive position because he could speak in public.
What is an orator?
This type of democracy allows citizens to vote directly on government decisions. There were no representatives.
What is direct democracy?
This is the age in which you could serve on council.
What is 30?
This is the person who brings the complaint about another person to court.
What is the plaintiff?
Independent communities that had their own style of government, its own laws, and its own army.
What is a city-state?
Government in Ancient Athens was developed during 500 BCE. The first elected Parliament in England was in 1265 CE. This government is the youngest developed one.
What is the Parliament of England?
On a rare occasion a metic or slave could be granted this.
What is citizenship?
Citizen and Metic classes that were poor left school at 13 or 14 and began this for their life.
What is learn a trade?
This was considered an accepted part of Athenian society, where a person's right to own another person was not questioned.
What is slavery?
Pericles introduced this law so everyone poor and rich could participate in public decisions and live comfortably.
What is be paid?
Voting was often a show of hands. However, occasionally they used this to represent their decision.
What are stones?
This position was only held for 24 hours, a day and a night and was chosen by lottery.
What is a chairman?
Any male citizen over the age of 30 could be chosen for this during a trial and there could be 501 to 1500 people depending on the case.
What is jury?
Greek City-states developed independently because of this.
What are mountains?
If I wanted to travel from Athens to the island of Crete and need to know the distance, I would use this feature on a map.
What is the scale?
Before bestowing of citizenship, a young man needed to complete this.
What is military service?
Girls were educated by their mothers in the household. She was given by her father for marriage at this age.
What is 15 years old?
Individual and minority rights were not a part of the thinking of Athenian democracy. This was the highest value.
What is the common good?
Socrates was one of the great thinkers in Ancient Athens. He criticized democracy because he thought this system did not allow the best people to govern.
What is lottery system?
Another word that means a decision. It is made by people who are in authority.
What is decree?
There were always 50 members of the Council on duty at all times to help the chairman deal with emergencies that might come up. They lived in this place near the agora.
What is the Tholos?
This water clock was used to time the speeches of the plaintiff and defendant. Each got the same amount of water in the jar.
What is klepsydra?