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Ancient Greece and Her City-States

Ancient Greece and Her City-States. By Phillip Oravec. Location. Time. Mycenaean civilization collapses after 1200 B.C.E. 435/433 B.C.E. Begins with the Peloponnesian War 31 B.C.E. Rome takes over Greece. Administration.

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Ancient Greece and Her City-States

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  1. Ancient Greece and Her City-States By Phillip Oravec

  2. Location

  3. Time • Mycenaean civilization collapses after 1200 B.C.E. • 435/433 B.C.E. Begins with the Peloponnesian War • 31 B.C.E. Rome takes over Greece

  4. Administration • Oligarchy: aform of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominantclass or clique; government by the few (most prevalent in Sparta). • City -state: a sovereign state consisting of an autonomous city with its dependencies (most powerful being Athens, Sparta and Corinth). • Democracy: created in Athens around 500 B.C.E .With no single ruler, a public assembly of male citizens met 40 times a year to vote on state decisions. The agenda was set and decrees carried out by a 500-strong council, chosen by lot to serve one year each.

  5. Military (Athens) • Athens superior military • 300 triremes • 13,000 hoplites • 1,000 calvary • 1,800 mercenary archers

  6. Athens con… • Military service for men from 18-60 years of age • All recruits had to pass the docimasia or proof of age/birth and determine physical state

  7. Military (Sparta) • Feared military power • Took boys from age of 7 • Rejection of culture

  8. Walls, Roads and otherInfrastructure

  9. Cont… • Most cities built their own defenses • Most roads within cities were un organized

  10. Currency • Before 600 B.C. trading • By 500 B.C. each city minted their own currency • Exchanges had to be made for currency

  11. Athens Currency • Called drachma

  12. Slavery • Prisoners of war, piracy and left at birth • Cost from > = 100 drachma • Could by freedom

  13. The End • Diadochi Wars • Rome grew substantially… takes over all of the Italian Peninsula • Rome finally takes Greece in 31 B.C.

  14. Bibliography for web sources • Carr, Adam. Wikipedia. N.p., 24 Feb. 2009. google. Web. 7 Sept. 2011. <http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ec/Acropolis3.JPG>. • Britannica.com. N.p., 19 May 2001. google. Web. 7 Sept. 2011. <http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/media/54536/Alexander-the-Greats-conquests-freed-the-West-from-the-menace>. • dictionary.com. N.p., 18 July 2011. google. Web. 7 Sept. 2011. <http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/city-states>. • Ancient Greece: Politics. Discovery Channel, 2011. Web. 7 Sept. 2011. <http://www.yourdiscovery.com/greece/politics/government/index.shtml>.

  15. Bibliographyfor book sources • Asimov, Isaac. The Greeks: A Great Adventure. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965. Print. • Connolly, Petter, and Hazel Dodge. The Ancient City: Life in Classical Athens and Rome. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Print. • Giannelli, Giulio. The World of Classical Athens. Macdonald & Co., 1970. Print

  16. Bibliographyfor pictures • Rymer, Eric. "Money in Ancient Greece." History Link 101. N.p., 2004. Web. 11 Sept. 2011. <http://historylink102.com/greece3/money.htm>. • Marin, Lucian E. "Crash of the Titans 2 Comments." Atroll's Entertainment A Troll's Account Of Having Fun. N.p., n.d. Web. 9 Sept. 2011. <http://atroll.wordpress.com/2010/04/15/crash-of-the-titans/>. • Lendering, Jona. "Long Walls." Long Walls. N.p., n.d. Web. 9 Sept. 2011. <http://www.livius.org/lo-lt/long_walls/long_walls.html>. • "File:Map Ancient Athens.png." Wikipedia. N.p., 5 Mar. 2009. Web. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Map_ancient_athens.png>. • Chiesa, Luigi. "SNGCop 039.jpg." Wikipedia. N.p., 24 Nov. 2010. Web. 11 Sept. 2011. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SNGCop_039.jpg>.

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