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Spartan Women: Land Ownership and Power in Ancient Greece

Explore the unique advantages of Spartan women who owned 40% of land, a rarity in world history. Discover how they controlled their finances and economic affairs, setting them apart in a male-dominated society of the time.

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Spartan Women: Land Ownership and Power in Ancient Greece

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  1. Final Jeopardy 3rd Hour • The school of philosophical thought that goes on to extreme popularity in the Roman Empire. • Stoicism

  2. Final Jeopardy 8th Hour • Free to control their own finances and economic affairs, the women of this polis, had advantages that few cultures in world history can point to as they owned 40% of the land! • Sparta

  3. Philosophy: 100 • The unexamined life is not worth living • Socrates

  4. Philosophy 200 • DOUBLE JEOPARDY • Plato’s most famous work

  5. Philosophy 300 • Diagnosed the height of the Great Pyramid a member of a traveling philosophical group called the “Sophists”. • Thales

  6. Philosophy 400 • Founded the “natural sciences”. • Aristotle

  7. Philosophy 500 • Gave us the following theorem. • Plato

  8. Wars with Persia 100 • Leader of the Greeks during the battle of Salamis • Themistokles

  9. Wars with Persia 200 • Leader of Persian forces during the battle of Marathon • Xerxes

  10. Wars with Persia 300 • Playwright who fought at the battle of Salamis and wrote extensively about it. • Aeschylus

  11. Wars with Persia 400 • The major Athenian military weapon • Trireme

  12. Wars with Persia 500 • Wracked the city in 429 BCE • Plague

  13. Democracy 100 • White and Black pebbles • Athenian Democracy

  14. Democracy 200 • Tyrant whose murderous intrigue led him to be overthrown by Kleisthenes

  15. Democracy 300 • DAILY DOUBLE • Noble reformer who introduced extremely harsh legal code onto Athens

  16. Democracy 400 • Athenian Assembly

  17. Democracy 500 • Ostracism

  18. Art and Culture 100 • Lead Athens during its golden age • Pericles

  19. Art and Culture 200 • Famed Greek Pottery

  20. Culture 300 • Parthenon Frieze

  21. Culture 400 • Oracle at Delphi

  22. Culture 500 • The play that chronicled one mans journey into despair as he realized he married his own mother and killed his father. • Oedipus Rex-Sophocles

  23. Impact 100 • Introduction of Democracy

  24. Impact 200 • Olympic Games

  25. Impact 300 • Theatre and Drama

  26. Impact 400 • Questioning, relentless search for truth in all endeavors of the human experience. • Socrates and Philosophy

  27. Impact 500 • Sing, goddess, the rage of Achilles the son of Peleus,the destructive rage that sent countless pains on the Achaeans... • Homeric Poetry-The Iliad

  28. Alexander 100 • Educated Alexander • Aristotle

  29. Alexander 200 • “One of the great men of Europe” • Philip II

  30. Alexander 300 • The famed horse that Alexander rode into battle. • Bucephalus

  31. Alexander 400 • Alexander’s major victory in the Punjab Region • Battle of Hydapses

  32. Alexander 500 • “he had great personal beauty, invincible power of endurance, and a keen intellect; he was brave and adventurous, strict in the observance of his religious duties, and hungry for fame.” • Arrian’s description of Alexander from Bentley…it’s a document so I’m guessing we didn’t read it?

  33. Hellenistic Science: 100 • Aristarchus

  34. Hellenistic Science 200 • Eureka!

  35. Hellenistic Science 300 • Euclid

  36. Hellenistic Science 400 • Studied the central nervous system

  37. Hellenistic Science 500 • Calculated the circumference of the earth

  38. Hellenistic Kingdoms 200 • Governed by Antigonid

  39. Hellenistic Kingdoms 400 • DAILY DOUBLE • Governed Persia, India, and Central Asia

  40. Hellenistic Kingdoms 600 • Governed Egypt and North Africa

  41. Hellenistic Kingdoms 800 • Women taking up political seats • Rise of cities • Strong localized rule

  42. Hellenistic Kingdoms 1000 • Almost exclusively run and monitored by talented Greeks, creating Greeks as the elite class throughout the region.

  43. Potpurri 200 • Another name for Greece

  44. Potpurri 400 • Bactria, where Ai Khanum was found

  45. Potpurri 600 • Famed emperor who had his edicts inscribed in Greek, Aramaic, and Sanskrit.

  46. Potpurri 800 • Hephestian

  47. Potpurri 1000 • Daily Double • Alexander Nehamas

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