Geography
- Sea-
- great oppertunity for trade and travel (the Mountains)
- Allowed Greece to get natural resources- timber, metals, usable farmland
- Land-
- Rugged mountains covered about 3/4 of ancient Greece
- Mountains- dividers for different regions
- Played role in wars- hard to move through mountains
- Climate-
- Upper 40's in winter
- Lower 80's in summer
- Climate allowed for many outdoors activities.
Big 3 Players
Minoan-
- elegant civilization taht had great power in 3000BC
- Writen, Language
- Design
- Trade
- Use ships to trade goods.
Mycenaeans
- heavily influenced by Minoans
- Came from Indo-European migrants
- Dominated Greece from 1600BC- 1100BC
Trojan War
Dorian
- Spoke a kind of Greek
- Not as advanced
- No writing system
- Story telling
- Best Story teller Homer
- Adapted to the area culcure
- City-States were formed from the tribal or clan control.
- Polis- made up of a city and its surrounding countryside, whisch include numerous villages.
- Citizens of the polis would come together to meet at an acropolis to discuss their city government
- Not all sity-states had the same form of government.
Monarchy
- State ruled by a king
- hereditary
- Some rulers claim that they have a divine right to rule- god has put them on the earth to rule people
- Practuced in Mycenae by 2000B.C
Aristocracy
- State ruled by nobility
- Rules= heretitary and based on ties, socill rank and wealth
- Social status and wealh support rulers athority
- Practiced in Athens prior
Oligrchy
- State Rules by a small group of citizen
- Rule is based on wealth and or ability
- Ruling group controls military
- Practiced in Sparta by 500BC
Direct Democracy
- State rules by the citisens
- Rule based on citizenship- not everyone living there had citizenship
- Majority rules
- Athen by 500 BC
Athens
- 600 BC tsking steps to democracy
- Major reforms for the nest 100 years that would eventually lead to a democracy in 500BC
Darco
- Developed a leagl code based on the idea that all Athenians, rich and poor were equal under law
- Very harse punishment for any crime
- Bilieved in debt slavery
- the word "draconian" has come to mean "extreme cuelty of severity"
Solon
- No citizen should own another
- organized Athens into four social classes based on wealth
- Only top 3 classes could hold political office<</body>
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