BELL WORK 10/15/14
 Answer in your notebook
 What does the Iliad and the Odyssey tell us about the
people of Greece? What do they value?
 It shows us the honor and courage that Greek heroes had in
battle.
BELL WORK 10/16
STRANDED –(DON’T FORGET VOCAB QUIZ
TOMORROW)
 Imagine that the class has been stranded on a deserted
island. In the interest of survival everyone has decided to
create a government for the island.
 You have 15 minutes to accomplish the following as a class.
1. Decide who will do the following – hunt and gather food,
cook, make shelter, explore the rest of the island, and take
care of the sick/injured
2. Create your first 10 rules.
3. Decide how you will determine if someone is guilty of
breaking any rules
4. The punishment for breaking any rules
5. How rules will be made in the future.
REFLECT – ANSWER IN YOUR NOTEBOOK
How well did the class work together?
What would have made it go more smoothly?
What problems did the class run into?
Did you agree with all of the rules? Why or
why not?
What did this experiment tell us ?
T YPES OF GOVERNMENT
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Monos – Single
Oligos – Few
Archy – Rule
Demos – People
Arios- best (wealthiest)
Kratos – Power
Tyrannos – usurper with
supreme power
Given that information,
what do you think these
types of government look
like?
Monarchy
Oligarchy
Democracy
Aristocracy
Tyranny
Which of these best describes the type of government the class
came up with?
QUIZ
 You have until I check in all the vocab lists to study
 GO
1. Highlight main ideas
-ONLY the most important (think Sports Center)
TODAY
 We will be completing a jigsaw
concerning the governments of
ancient Greece
 Step 1 Complete an active
reading of your text
 Step 2 Complete the column that
goes with your type of government
 Step 3 Create a drawing that
represents your type of
government on the back of your
chart
 Step 4 work with the members of
your group of four to finish your
charts.
 EACH PERSON should take turns
explaining what they found along
with their drawing
2. Underline new vocab and define in margins
-First try to use context clues
-If that doesn’t work, look it up!
3. Mark up the text as if you’re talking to it!
!- Interesting information
?-Ask all types of questions (Who, Why, What, Where, I wonder if…)
*- Make Connections (to yourself, to the world, to other text)
GREEK DARK AGE
 Af ter the fall of Mycenaean
Civilization around 1100 BCE
Greece goes dark
 Decreasing production of art &
pottery
 Agriculture collapses
 People flee due to famine
 Writing using Linear B vanishes
BELL WORK 10/20
 Turn in your homework
 Take out and review your government chart, you will be need
to be able to explain them to your peers in a moment. Be sure
you know the advantages and disadvantages!
THE ARCHAIC AGE
& THE POLIS
Polis=City State
 contained an agora which
means gather space
(agoraphobia is the fear
of open or crowded
spaces) and acropolis
within its fortifications.
 Each polis was
autonomous from all
other poleis.
 The strength of the
community came through
the cooperation of
citizens
 However, most women
were restricted to the
home
 Also, we derive the word
Politics from the word
Polis
WARFARE SHAPES
GREECE
 "We must rather regard every
citizen as belonging to the state“ Aristotle
 New military technology increases
the power of the middle class
 Hoplite- a citizen/soldier who was
armed with a spear, shied & sword
 Phalanx- a formation of heavily
armed foot soldiers that was 16
people wide & 16 people deep
 required extensive training
 promoted a sense of unity among
the citizens
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GREEK
COLONIZATION
 Cause the dif fusion (spread) of Greek culture throughout the
Mediterranean
 Fostered a Greek identity by introducing Greeks to people of other
languages and customs
 Increased trade and industry leads to a group of rich men who
desire political privileges
 In response to the aristocrats came the tyrants who sought to solve
economic disparity and encourage the economic and political
progress of the polis
SPARTA
 Sought stability and
conformity while
emphasizing obedience
 Started with just four
villages, once unified
they conquered their
neighboring Laconians
 many become perioikoi or
free inhabitants required
to pay taxes
SPARTA
 Other Laconians become helots who became slaves to the
Spartans
 Helots did all of the farming for the Spartan population
 They also had war declared on them every year
 Subsequently, the military became the center of Spartan life in order to
defeat any potential uprisings of the helots
ATHENS
 Started as a monarchy in 700
BCE
 By 600 control had moved to
the aristocracy
 Solon- elected archon in 594
B.C. outlawed debt slavery
and freed those already
enslaved, granted citizenship
to foreigners, gave Athenian
assembly more say in
government
ATHENS AGE
OF T YRANNY
 Internal issues following Solon’s
rules result in an age of tyrants
 Pisistratus seized power in 560 BC
 Offers land reform, beautifies city
& creates jobs
 Hipparchus (hippias) takes power
after his father
 Institutes a number of harsh
unpopular reforms, is exiled and
later killed
 Aristocrats try to establish an
oligarchy when..
 Cleisthenes – another reformer,
broadens the role of citizens in
government, set up the council of
500, and allowed to assembly to
actually WRITE & VOTE on laws
Harmodius and Aristogeiton, killing Pisistratus' son Hipparchus