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WhatTwo cultures influence
Minoan and Mycenaean
Why do we read Greek literature
Study Greek values
What caused each polis is to be different from one another
Geography – mountains cause isolation and lack of communication
How did you get the impact the development of Athens and Sparta
Athens due to a coastal geography, turn to trade and interacted with other cultures Sparta, due to its landlocked geography, isolated itself and depended on a farming economy
How did the Persian war impact Athens? Sparta?
I don’t lost 200 chips and both lost many men overall Athens won and defeated the Persians
Why do we study Greek literature
To learn about what the Greeks valued
Polis
City state including the settlement and farmland
Dark age
A period Where people forgot how to read and write
Foreigner
A person from another city state
Monarchy
One lawful ruler
Aristocrats
Wealthy man who inherited land: landowners who provided advice
Oligarchy
Form of government in which a few people have the ruling power
Tyranny
One unlawful ruler who has the power to make a political decisions
Democracy
Also doesn’t have the power to make political decisions
Citizen
A person who is Mel, of age, not slave, not foreigner, free
Direct democracy
Every citizen can get vote every issue
Representing Democracy
People vote for representatives who decide on the issues
Assembly
Lawmaking group
What force people to settle an isolated communities in Greece
The mountains
What to be communities have in common
Language
How did Greeks identify themselves
With the hometown or polis
Why did the Monarch lose power
Depended on the aristocrats for help and they gained too much power
Why did the oligarch lose power
Ignored the needs of most people. The rich got richer and the poor got poorer
Why did the tyrant lose power
Rules to harshly and was forced out