sililar reglions
- roman religon was born out of greek mythology
-similiar gods with different names
- zeus- jupiter- poseidon, neptume , hades-pluto hera- juno
goveremnt of athens
- by the 5th century their goverent changed from tyrannt to a democracy
tyranny - autoatical rulers who goverented by decree
-athans creater the first democracy
who was allowed to participate
-only citizens were allowed to participate
- men were concidered citiczens
-woman slaves and foreighers were not
- if a child parents were not citizens that child wasnt
branches and bodies
The assembly
- any man was allowed to attend
- they were held 40 times a ywar on a hillside
-mojority rules
council
-superivised goverent workers
-in charge of navy shipd and army
courts
-most powerful
-500 jorors had to be males over the age 50
no rules on what kinds of cases could be tired
did the poeple like it
-people could speak their minds
-all citizens could participate
-peacefully settled disputes
-age resctiction
-pait for service
critics
-many critics- both ancient and modern
why
- only some men could vote
- not woman rights
- limited citizenship
- slavery
-money and power still had advantage
key players
perciles
- leader for 30 years
solon
- intoduced many new goveremtns reform
cleithenes
-father of democracy
elections
-didnt have election for the council
-500 names were drawn from all the people of athens
- those 500 people had to serve as the law makers for one year
Macedonia
geography
-had a rought terrian and a cold climate
- the people lived mostly in mountain villages instead of the city-states like athens had
not seeing eye to eye
- most of the macedonian nobles referred to themselves as greeks
-once again the greeks thought that the macedonians were barbaric and not as civilized as the greekes
know this!!!!- what other ciliczations did the greeks treat this way
changes
after the peloponnesian war several greek city-states were very weak
-economically
-militaristically
when there is weakness or a struggle there is usuallly a predator or someone else to take advantage of the opportunity. in this case, it was macedonia
macedoniaian leadership
- phillip ii was the kinds of there 360
- only 23 would he became king
- brilliant general
- was able to train peasants into warriors
- his dream was to take over greece and avehge the perisain invastion of greece in 480 bc
his tactics
- phillip organized his army into phalanxes of 16 mean acrossed by 16 meana deep
- all 256 mean had to work together for this formantion to work correctly
after the phalans had broke throught the enemys line he would then send in cavalry to crush the disorganized or retreting opponents
conquest for greece
- anathenians orator named demosthens tried to warn the greeks of the threat of phillop and told them to prepare and army
- however, the city-states if greece couldnt came up with united response
- finally athens and thebes decide to standup to phillip but it wa too late
new leader
- next to phillips agenda ws to invade persia
- however,he wa never able to do this
- at his daughters wedding he was stadded to death by on of his former guards
- his son immedition tooke himself to king
alexander the gerat
- was taught by asritotle
-spread hellenistic culture
- very intellectual, kept a copy of the lliad under his pilloe to remind him of the heroic of achilles in the trojar war
- alex wasted to show his power early and when the people of thebes rebelled he destroyed
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