Title: Greek Social Structure

1. Title: Greek Social Structure • Do Now: • Today is “Get a Different Name Day.” Some of you may know why you have the name you do, or what your name means. If you could give yourself a different name just for today, what would it be and why would select that name?

2. Agenda • Do Now: • Greek People • Greek Olympics • G.R.A.P.E.S

3. Objective • Students will complete a G.R.A.P.E.S sheet showing all knowledge of Ancient Greece in preparation for the unit test.

4. Vocabulary • Tenant farmers: people who pay rent their in money or crops, to farm another person’s land • Aristocrats: wealthy individuals who have the most power in Greek city-states. • Status: a person’s rank or position in a society

5. Social Structure • Greek society consisted of 4 main social classes: Wealthy Aristocrats Small farmers Merchants and Artisans Slaves

6. Social Structure • The wealthy aristocrats dominated the government in most Greek city states. • They gained their wealth from owning large estates where they raised crops and livestock • Small farmers owned their own land and some were tenant farmers • Farmers rarely had enough land to raise livestock or produce a surplus.

7. Social Structure • Merchants and artisans were often foreigners or from another city-state (metics) • They had very few rights

8. Greek Slaves • Slaves were acquired in various ways, many were prisoners of war or bought from slave traders or sold into slavery by their family • By 500 B.C. in some city states slaves made up one third of the population. • Their jobs included being household slaves, cooking cleaning and taking care of children. • Others worked in factories, on farms, or as part of ship crews and in mines. • Without slaves, the economy would not have been as strong as it was.

9. Greek Slaves • Slaves had no right and could be punished freely by their owners but some were treated kindly • Some were even freed! • One famous slave who we know about was Aesop. He was a slave but became free when his owner recognized what a gifted writer he was!

10. Greek Olympics • The first Olympics games are usually given the start year of 776 BCE, but they probably began even sooner. • The ancient Greeks loved competitions of all sorts, especially sporting competitions.

11. Greek Olympics • If two or more Greek city-states happen to be at war with each other when the game date arrived, war was halted for the duration of the games. • Everyone wanted their city-state to win! http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=B8A1F0F6-9CA3-4468-B59C-E320BB3149BD&blnFromSearch=1&productcode=US

12. G.R.A.P.E.S GREECE G R A E P S

13. Homework • Finish your study guide! • It is due Thursday before you can take your test • Do not write your answers on the paper, do them on a separate piece of paper or in your notebook!