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Greece Characteristics

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  • surrounded by water= good for trade
  • lack of land forced expansion
  • expansion from Spain to Egypt
  • mountains and island country restricts farming
  • divided into city-sates
  • small= easy to rule
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Democracy

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  • Rule of the people
  • gov’t controlled
    • directly
    • representatives
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City-State

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  • Polis
    • acropolis
    • walled main city; marketplace, theaters, home
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Aristocracy

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nobles that protect the king or queen

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What age did a male have to be to be considered a citizen

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30

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Political structure

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  • 2 kings=balance power
  • council of elders=advise monarchs
  • assembly=citizens approve decisions
  • 5 ephors=help day to day affairs
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The idea of democracy started where?

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Athens Greece

  • 1st democracy
  • 2nd aristocracy
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Solon 594 B.C.

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  • passed a law outlawing slavery based on debt
  • 4 classes of citizenship
  • 3 highest classes could hold office
  • all classes could vote
  • gov’t positions open only to the wealthy
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Clesisthenes 507 B.C.

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  • recognized the assembly (30 yrs+)
  • this broke up the power of the nobility
  • allowed citizens to create laws=legislature
  • CREATED THE COUNCIL OF 500
  • REWARDED AS THE FOUNDER OF DEMOCRACY
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Pericles 460 B.C.

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-Athens would defeat Persians in the Persian War making them the most powerful city-state
-direct democracy
-believes that everyone should participate in democracy
-Sparta would end “Golden Age” by defeating Athens in the Peloponnesian war
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Who were the three philosophers?

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S.P.A. = Socrates, Plato, Aristotle

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Socrates

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  • anti-sophist=a supporter of traditional values and ideas
  • The greatest good was?= God
  • did not write books
  • supported democracy
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Plato

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-student of socrates
-set up the Academy
-believed that meritocracy would best serve the interest of people
-3 classes
~workers=necessities
~Philosopher/king=rule
~military=defend
-society run not by the richest or most powerful but by the wisest
-did not support democracy because he felt that people have too much power

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Aristotle

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  • The Lyceum=school
  • a constitutional gov’t should be headed by the middle class
  • the law can’t appeal to the constitution
  • NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW
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Where did the idea of a republic begin?

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Rome

-republic= a thing of the people

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Ancient Rome’s characteristics

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  • Mediterranean Sea access

- they farm

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Patricians vs. plebians

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  • patricians=nobles

- plebians=lower class

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Senate?

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  • 300
  • made laws
  • chose consuls
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Consuls?

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  • 2
  • 1 year term
  • could bot be re-elected for 10 years because of checks and balances for business and military
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Dictator?

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-6 months at a time

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Tribunes?

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  • veto law
  • 10 of them
  • elected by commoners
  • arrest any official
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Assemblies?

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  • vote
  • jury by your peers
  • DECLARE WAR!!!
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What was the first form of written laws?

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  • the twelve tables

- written in stone can’t be changed

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Greece and Rome believed in many gods, this is called what?

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polytheistic

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Julius Caesar

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  • made jobs for people
  • grants citizenship on the outskirts of Rome
  • gave public land to the poor
  • assassinated in the senate in 44 B.C.
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Augustus Caesar

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  • grand nephew of Julius

- under his rule rome went from a republic to an empire

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Pax Romana

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-Roman peace of 200 years

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Law of nations?

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This natural law concept will be revisited during the enlightenment era; a key component in the U.S. Declaration of Independence

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Five books in the Torah?

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Genesis, exodus, leviticus, numbers, and deuteronomy

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The 10 comandments

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  • first 4 deal with relationship with God

- last 6 deal with the Jews and their moral relationship with one another

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What caused the Jews to scatter?

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Diaspora

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First four books of the bible?

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Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John

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Who doubted Jesus and why?

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Romans, because they thought he was a threat because it can cause those to take over Roman rule.
Gentiles-no jews people in the jewish church

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Difference between Christianity and Judaism?

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  • Christians focus on Jesus as the messiah, to be the center of there faith
  • Judaism, just Old Testament
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Hierarchy?

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  • a group of persons arranged in order of rank.

- a system of church in government by clergy

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Feudalism

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-loosely organized system of rule, lords divided their landholdings among lesser lords.

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Who fought for the right to become the next king in England in 1066? Who won?

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  • William of Normandy and Harold of England

- William of normandy won and became known as “William the Conqueror”

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How did William the conqueror alter feudalism?

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he built an efficient system of tax collecting=cenus

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What was the Magna Carta a result of?

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Henry II attempted to gain more royal power

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