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101 Greece II. Dark Age and Archaic Greece. “Ages” of Greek Civilization. Bronze Age 2800 – 1100 BC Dark Age 1100 – 750 BC Archaic Age 750 – 500 BC Classical Greece 500 – 338 BC Hellenistic Age 338 – 146 BC. Polis 8 th Century BC Hellas Archaic Period Acropolis Agora.
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101 Greece II Dark Age and Archaic Greece
“Ages” of Greek Civilization • Bronze Age 2800 – 1100 BC • Dark Age 1100 – 750 BC • Archaic Age 750 – 500 BC • Classical Greece 500 – 338 BC • Hellenistic Age 338 – 146 BC
Polis • 8th Century BC • Hellas • Archaic Period • Acropolis • Agora
Types of Greek Government • Monarchy • Oligarchy • Tyranny • Democracy
Sparta - Diarchy • Corinth - Oligarchy • Athens – you name it!
Athens • Plutarch • Aristotle?Constitution of Athens • Attica • Synoecism • Autochthonous • Theseus • Codrus
Aristoi • 700 BC • Archons • 594 BC • Solon • “Shaking off Burdens”
Reforms of Solon • Outlawed debt slavery • Set limits on land ownership • Created the Boule • Timocracy
Athenian Political “Parties” • Faction of the Plain • Faction of the Coast • Faction of the Hills
Tyranny • Peisistratus • 561 BC • Athena • 539 BC
Reforms of Peisistratus • Reduce the power of the aristocrats • Exile enemies, confiscate their land and give it to the poor • Impose a tax for internal improvements • Introduce coinage (Athenian Owl) • Encouraged the cult of Dionysus • Build the Athenian Navy • 527. BC
Cleisthenes • 509 BC • Democracy “rule of the people” • Demos • Deme • Demarch
Council (boule) of 500 • 50 from each tribe • 1 yr term/ only two years during life • Set agenda for assembly • Tribes - Ten in number (used to be four) • Not geographically contiguous • Made up of “thirds”; Loosely based on Plain, Coast, Hills • Assembly • Free adult male citizens • Met in Athens (about four times per month) • Debated, then voted on agenda set by boule
Map of Cleisthenes’ trittyes and tribes
City Architect • Generals • Strategos • Strategoi
Ostracism • Ostraka