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What is the Colossus of Rhodes
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A statue of Helios
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where is the island of Rhodes
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off of Greese
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why was the Colossus of Rhodes built
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celibrate a victory
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Statue of Rhodes inspired
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statue of liberty (torch)
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artist who designed Statue of Rhodes
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Chares???
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distruction of Colossus of Rhodes
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earthquake - stayed in pieces b/c belived Zeus didn't want to pick up peices - later Arabs used for scrap meatal
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who carved statue of Zeus
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Phidas
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where is the statue of zeus
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Olympia, Greece
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in hands of statue of Zeuse
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statue of Nike in left
cepter in right |
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in hands of statue of Zeuse
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statue of Nike in left
cepter in right |
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statue of Zeuse made of
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carved from ivory, covered w/ gold
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Myth of Statue of Zeuse
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Emporer Constantine wanted to move to constantinople - wodden base filled w/ mice - noise - thought was haunted
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who was Mausoleum of Halicarnassus built for
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king Mazolus (satrap)
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wher was Mausoleum of Halicarnassus
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Halicarnassus - modern city of Bodrum in W asia minor
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what is Mausoleum of Halicarnassus
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tomb
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Mausoleum of Halicarnassus description
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collumns, rectangular, step pyramid on top, lots of statues
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Mausoleum of Halicarnassus description
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collumns, rectangular, step pyramid on top, lots of statues
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sarcophagus in Mausoleum of Halicarnassus
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in middle, marble, statues of greek myth & history
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Hanging gardens made of
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mud bricks & stone
plants above ground roots in roof |
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water for Hanging gardens
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from Euphrates by pully system
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Hanging gardens built for/by
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Nabuchadnezzer-for wife
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Temple of Artemis in
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Ephesus
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Temple of Artemis looks like
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lots of collumns - 1 left
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Temple of Artemis rebuilt
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7 times - destroyed in battle-wanted favor goddess
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Ephesian Artemis
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goddess of fertility
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Pyramids for
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big-Kufu
son Khafre grandson Mankare 3 Queen pyramids |
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Geography of greece
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3/4 mountains
short Rivers little arable land long coast |
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climate of greece & efect
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mild - spend a lot of time outdoors
meetings, plays |
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affect of mountains
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isolated
protected |
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effect of sea
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traders, fishers, pirates
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Sir Arthur Evans
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British - evidence that was a civilization - Minoan
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Sir Arthur Evans
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British - evidence that was a civilization - Minoan
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Minoan city
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Kinossos
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palace @ Kinossos
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king Minos, labyrinth, frescos
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Minoan Women
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higher status than others
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minoan trade
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ships - had wood
ships guarded creete - no walls w/ Egypt & mesopotamia |
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End of Minoans
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don't know how
tidal wave? Mycenaean invasion? |
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Mycenaeans lived
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Balkan Pen.
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Mycanaeans from
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central asia - migrated b/c pop. growth
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Mycenaean kingdoms
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hiltop, walled fortress, estates & vilages outside
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Mycenaean palaces
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centers of gov. & production-had artisans
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Mycenaean artisans
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leather, clothes, jars (olive oil & wine), bronze sword, oxhide shields
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Mycenaean taxes
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records of all people
form of - wheat, livestock, honey |
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Mycenaean trade
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w/ minoans - adopted parts of culture
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"dark ages" began
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Dorians invaded (iron weapons) - less advanced - trade & skills & writing stopped
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reaction to "dark ages"
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many flead to Ionia - kept cuture - had phoenician alphabet - bards
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Civ. after "dark ages"
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Helenic - after 1st greeks
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Homer
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blind poet
Iliad & Odessey |
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Homer
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blind poet
Iliad & Odessey |
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Iliad
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Trojan war
Paris & Helen 10 yr seige trojan horse |
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Heinrich Schliemann
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German archiologist
Troy was real |
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Odyssey
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Mycenaean king Odysseus
10 yrs to get home to wife adventures |
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Iliad & Odessey in schools
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show values:
loyalty, love, exelece, bravery |
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Gods human qualities
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marriage, kids, jelousy, murder, lying, quareling
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festivals
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Zeus - olimpics
Dionysus - theatre |
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1st theatres
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open air, audiance on hillside then permenant w/ seats
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polis
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city-state (& surrounding area)
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acropolis
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hill in middle of city w/ temple to local diety
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agora
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& foot of acropolis - public square
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occered in agora
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choose oficials, meetings, artisans & merchants
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rights of citizens
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vote, hold office, own property, speak for selves in court
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citizens
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people who participated in gov.
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citizens had to
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surve in office
defend polis |
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colonies
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after "dark ages" - big pop. - sent out - farmed - sent back grain - farmers in polis did other crafts
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cash crops
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in polis
wine, olive oil nedded less workers |
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coins
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1st - issued by merchants
then by polis |
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Ionian pottery
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exported, based on Mycenaean, birds/humans/geometric lines
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disputed between commoners & aritocrats
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debts - lost land - debt slavery
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Phalanx
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rows of foot soldiers w/ shields
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oligarchy
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rule by wealthy - not hereditary, not land
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How common people became more valuble
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footr soldirs - backbone of army
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unrest caused
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tyranies
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tyrant
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seize power & rule by self
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meaning of tyrant today
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good rulars became harsh
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democracy
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gov. by people
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where is sparta
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pelponnesus pen.
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why is sparta militaristic
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invaded neibors for food - slaves - revolt
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helots
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spartan slaves
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perioikoi
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artisans & merchants from caonquered (in sparta)
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ambitions of spartans
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men - good soldiers
women - mothers of " |
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why sparta didn't have a wall
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believed if defended by spartan soldiers, don't need one
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life of spartan men
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7 - start training
20 - sent to frontier 30 - marry 60 - retier |
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women in sparta
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healthy & strong - as much food as brothers (differnt)
did gymnastics, wresleing, boxing |
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marriage fo spartan girls
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@ 19 not 14 - increased likelyhood of strong childern
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freedoms of women in sparta
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shopping, dinners w/ non-family members there, own property, express opinoins
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could sparten women take part in gov.
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no
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rular of sparta
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2 kings
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the Assembly in sparta
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all male citizens, passed laws, decisions about war & peace
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5 ephors
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(sparta) overseers, elected by assembly, public affairs, veto legeslation
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Council of elders in sparta
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28 men over 60, proposed laws, supreme court
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how sparta lagged behind other greeks
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shunned philosophy, science, arts; discourge trade (to be self-reliant)
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importants of spartans
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good athlets, soldiers important
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location of athens
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Attica Pen.
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1st gov of athens
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monarchy then arisocracy
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athens' main problem
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friction between classes
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metics
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free foreigners in athens couldn't own lands
or participate in gov. |
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constitution
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a plan of gov
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athenian constitution
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all free ahtenian-born males vote -> reduced conflict
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Draco
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law code - harsh - written down
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Solon
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canceled debts - outlawed debt slavery - limited amnt. of land a person could own - promoted industry & trade
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athenian councel of 400
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aristocrats, draft stuff for assemblies approval
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Peisistratus
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divided up estates, loans for poor
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Cleithenes
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power to assembly, all citizens part of, equal before law, freedom of speech
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Athenian assembly
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supreme court, pass laws, appointed generals
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ahthenian council of 500
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open to all citizens, daily gov buissiness
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anthenian lottery
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every year, choose members of council, had to surve, believe elections unfairly favored rich
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athenian jury system
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majority vote, large size so not influenced by threats or bribes
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ostracism
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each yr. citizens of athens wrote down name of bad politition - if appeared 6,000 times - could be exiled
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ostraca
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piece of baked clay unsed in ostracism
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athenian education for girls
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no formal, household duties from mother
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athenian education for boys
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requiered
rich - tutors others - private school most - debates in assembly in agora |
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ahtenian boys learned
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arithmatic, geometry, drawing, music, gymnastics, in teens - rhetoric
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rhetoric
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the art of public speaking - didn't have lawyers
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military service in athens
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18 - swore oath @ temple of Zeus
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seas around greece
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Aegean, Black, Mediterraninan, Ionian
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greece lacked
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natural resources - timber, precios metals, arable land
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Minoan bulls
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religion, bull leaping
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Minoan palaces & noble homes had
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running water
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Mycenaean social classes
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sharp devisions, only wealthy had bronze
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Elysian Fields
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paradise, part of underworls, only for heroes
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athenian tyrants
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support of lower classes, promises for peace & prosperity
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