Ch 5 Set 2
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- Results of Peloponnesian War
- Greece was polically unstable. Sparta and then Thebes tried to control all of Greece. They were defeated and wars between teh city-states continued. Greeks felt that only a foreign powere could unite Greece. It still made great advances during this time
- Cleissthenes
- 507 B.C. seized power in Athens and turned it into a democracy
- Pedagogue
- a male slave who taught the boy manners
- Sophists
- man who opended schools for older boys, their name for the Greek word ___ meaning wise boys studied government, mathematics, etics, and rhetoric
- Direct Democracy
- all citizens participated directly in making decisions
- Sparta
- the capital of a city-state that were made up of invaders and is concerned about military
- Pericles
- a great general, orator, and statesman who held public office or was active in public life from 461 B.C. to 429 B.C.
- Rhetoric
- the study of oratory, or public speaking, and debating
- Helots
- people who the spartans conquered and used to work
- Draco
- an archon who is believed to have created athens's first written law code around 621 B.C.
- Battle of Thermopylae
- The battle where the Persians outnumbered the Spartans and the Spartans refused to surrender and fought until they were all killed
- Ethics
- deals with what is good bad and moral duty
- Macedonia
- outer part of Greece father from the mainland, near Mt. Olympus
- Spartan Government
- two kings at the top of the government won led war the other took care of matters at home. Then there was a council of elder. Lastly there wwas an assembly that included all male citizens over 30 years old
- Representative Democracy
- citizens elect representatives to govern for them
- Persian Wars
- The conflicts between Greece and Persia due to the Greeks in Asia Minor who rebelled against hte PErsians
- Ephors
- elected officers who serve for on-year and made sure that the kings syated within the law and had complete control over the education of youn Spartans
- Peloponnesian War
- The war between Sparta and Athens
- Solon
- an archon in 594 B.C. who settled the disputes between creditors and debtors by erasing the debts of the poor and outlawing slavery for debt, freeing people who had become slaves to pay their debts and divided all citizens into four groups based on wealth
- Xerxes
- Ddarius's son who led another huge Persian army and fleet against Greece.
- Terracing
- carving small, flat plots of land from hillsides
- Delian League
- an alliance of city-states with Athens as leader
- Peististratus
- ruled over Athens as a tyraant and improved athens's economy and clashedd with the nobles