Chapter 5 set 2
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- Macedonia
- was conquered by Xerxes
- Pericles
- great general, orator, and statesman who held public or was active in public life from 461 B.C. to 429 B.C.
- Representative Democracy
- citizens elect repreentatives to govern for them
- Peisistratus
- ruled over Athen as a tyrant, improved economy, clashed with nobles
- Athens
- Located on the Attic peninsula, one of the least fertile places in Greece
- Rhetoric
- Study of oratory, or public speaking, and debating
- Results of Peolonnesian War
- Athens surrendered to Sparta, Greece was politically unstable
- Peloponnesian War
- Athens vs. Sparta
- Spartan Government
- 2 kings, one for army and one for home
- Persian wars
- conflicts between Greece and Persia that lasted until 479 B.C.
- Cleithenes
- seized power and turned it into democracy
- Terracing
- carving small, flt plots of land from the hillsides
- Solon
- became an archon, settled disputes between creditors and debtors
- Ephors
- made sure kings stayed within the laws
- Battle of Thermopylae
- Spartans had given time to allies to prepare
- Draco
- created Athen's first written law code (621 B.C.)
- Direct Democracy
- all citizens participated directly making decisions
- Delian League
- an alliance of city-states with Athens as leader
- Helot
- conquered people by invaders from the north, (pre-spartans=invaders )
- Pedagogue
- Male slaves who taught the boy manners
- Ethics
- deals with what is good and bad, and moral duty
- Xerxes
- Darius' son, led another huge Persian army and fleet against Grece
- Sparta
- City-state located in a valley
- Sophists
- "wise", opened schools for older boys