Paragraph 2.1: From palace to polis

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Chapter 2: From palace to polis

What do you already know about the ancient Greeks?

What remains from the atiquity are still visible to us today?

Lesson Goals

• You explain how Greece consisted of multiple city – states (Polis) and was not governed as one state.
  
• You explain how the Poleis were governed. 

Polis

Ancient Greece

Greece consists of Islands, mountains --> hard to cummunicate with different areas of ancient Greece --> not one state but multiple city states.

20% of fertile soil equiped for agriculture. --> danger? Famine ==> Colonization

City states

City- states = independent area consisting of a city and the surrounding countryside with own laws and government.

Different ways of government:

• Monarchy: a government with a king at the head of the government.
• Oligarchy: a government by a small group of leaders.
• Aristocracy: a government by a noble class.
• Democracy: a government by citizens who are politically active.

Athenian democracy (1)

594 BC there was almost a civil war in Athens -> Solon was elected to create new laws.

Solon decided that how mocht influence a person had in goverment should be determined by ownership (being rich) and deposed the aristocrats.

546 BC: Pesistratos (tyrant) seized power. He improved living conditions for the poor and gained the support of the poor

Athenian democracy (2)

509 BC: Cleishenes deposed the son of Pesistratos and turned Athens into a democracy: Every free man in Athens would be able to vote in the peoples' assembly : Direct democracy

Being a citizen of Ahtens meant being politically active.

Political = playing an active role in the Polis

Name 4 ways a city state could be governed

How do we call a government by nobility?

1. Monarchy
2. Aristocracy
3. Democracy
4. Oligarchy

How do we call a government by a smell group of leaders

1. Monarchy
2. Aristocracy
3. Democracy
4. Oligarchy

How do we call a government by citizens?

1. Monarchy
2. Aristocracy
3. Democracy
4. Oligarchy

In wich governmental form does a King hold power?

1. Monarchy
2. Aristocracy
3. Democracy
4. Oligarchy

Important persons

• Cleisthenes : introduced democracy in Athens
• Pesistratos : Tyrant who improved lives of the poor
• Solon : introduced new laws, so that not only the noble could govern Athens.

Important terms

• Aristocracy
• Oligarchy
• Democracy
• Monarchy
• Polis
• Direct democracy
• Political
• peoples'assembly 
• City- states
• Colonization

Important dates

• 594 BC
• 546 BC
• 509 BC

Explain how Greece consisted of multiple city – states (Polis) and was not governed as one state.

Explain how the Poleis were governed.

Work on:

 Coursebook: Paragraph 2.1: (p. 32- 34)

Workbook: Paragraph 2.1: (p. 31-32) exc. 1, 7

Coursebook: Paragraph 2.2: (p. 35&36)

Workbook: Paragraph 2.2: (p. 34-36) exc. 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10