SIGNIFICANT FACTS ABOUT ANCIENT GREECE THAT WAS LEFT OUT OF LECTURE

OooooPPPSS, I forgot…

Key Terms

Acropolis The fortified height or citadel of an ancient Greek city

Polis A city-state was called a polis from which our modern word “politics: comes

Agora ancient Greek marketplace. Greeks and other Mediterranean neighbors discussed issues in the marketplace and traded

Tyranny was originally one who used the power of the populace in an unconventional way to seize and control governmental power in a polis.

-Draco first code of law (included debt slavery)-Solon outlawed debt slavery, economic reforms

Athens: Monarchy to Democracy

Athens started with1. Monarchy

Then…2. Aristocracy

Then…3. Tyranny

Finally…4. Direct Democracy

Random

Athens will stop using the barter system (trade item for another item) and use one system of currency to help ease trade throughout the Delian League

Homer will write the Illiad and OdysseyTrojan War Mycenaean Empire vs. Troy