Notes

Socrates was apparently an ugly man and he had gross stinky feet. In 508 B.C. there was chaos in Athens and they were demanding freedom. Cleisthenes was brought up to be a ruler. He was one of the very few rich people who thought that people needed freedom so he set out for the Greek Empire. 570 B.C. Cheisthenes was born and he was born to be an aristocrat who were rich people with a lot of power money and land. Athens was in the middle of the Mediterrian sea and is a peninsula. The Athens town was built around the acropolis. There life expectancy was less than 15 years. Common Athenians lived under the rules of Aristocrats. Aristotle thought Athens was unfair and unjust. Greece was three fourths mountainous. It was divided into city-states, and Sparta was its own city-state, known for military and war. They lived in barraks, and the Spartan life was without comfort. Ancient tales and myths made there lives interesting. Homer wrote the Iliad and the Odessey. Physisticris showed up with a tall beautiful women and claimed she was the Goddesses Athena and that he should be ruler because Athena loves him and is looking over him. b

Study Guide Chapter 4

Test

Today we had a test, and it was open book. I think I did pretty well, but the score will let me know!

Study

Today I went through the outline and highlighted what I thought were some important facts in the book and studied them over again. I think I am ready to take the test on monday.

Chapter 3 outline

Today in class i downloaded this outline to study off of, and then took some class notes. All of them however are already in this outline.



Chapter 3 Outline

 

I. The European Barbarians (LO1)

            A. The Earliest Europeans

                        1. by 4000BC, farming and village life had spread throughout the                                               continent

                        2. by 3500BC, increased population and wealth led to complex religious                                     structures

                                   

            B. The Barbarian Way of Life

                        1. common way  of life as result of migrations of Indo-European nomads                                    (c.2500BC onward) from the steppes that bordered Europe on the east

                        2. languages

                                    a. ancestor languages of Greek and Latin

                        3. elites of warriors

                        4. farming and village life

                        5. In this way, Europe came to be inhabited by peoples who spoke mostly                                  Indo-European languages; who were skilled in farming, metalworking, trade, and warfare; and who were fairly well organized on the local level, but had no cities, written records, or fixed structures of government

                        6. c.2000BC-1000AD these barbarians came into contact with civilization

                        7. the first such European barbarian people to make contact with                                                 civilization were the Greeks - their civilization, the first to emerge in Europe, was the first to definitively be labeled “Western”

II. The Aegean Encounter (LO2)

            A. Minoan Civilization

                        1. c.2200BC a distinct civilization known as Minoan arose on the Aegean                                   island of Crete

                        2. Minoans drew wealth from control of the seas and trade with eastern                                     Mediterranean lands, especially Egypt

            B. The Arrival of the Greeks: Mycenaean Civilization

                        1. when the Greeks made their way to the Aegean, they seem to have been                     a European barbarian people much like any other

                        2. eventually they came under the influence of nearby Crete

                        3. by c.1600BC Greek chieftains had established settlements along the                                       mainland’s southern shore and on some islands

                        4. Mycenaean Greeks

                        5. struggles between Mycenaeans and Minoans for control of the                                                commerce of the eastern Mediterranean lasted until c.1400BC, with the                                           destruction of Minoan towns, perhaps as a result of Mycenaean conquest

                                   

            C. The “Dark Ages”

                        1. Mycenaean civilization lasted until shortly after 1200BC due to the conquest of the Sea Peoples

                        2. c.1150 BC Myceneae was sacked and all settlements deserted - in addition, the population dropped, and writing fell out of use

                        3. this led to the eclipse of civilization for almost 400 years, known as the                                   Dark Ages (1150 - 750 BC)

                        4. but the Greeks themselves survived and even expanded their territory

                                

            D. The Renewal of Greek Civilization

                        1. c.800 BC the Aegean region recovered

                        2. population expansion led to founding of colonies, c.800-600 BC

                        3. the Greeks joined the Phoenicians as the leading commercial and                                             seafaring nation of the Mediterranean

                        4. a common religion

                        5. new developments

                                    a. use of iron tools and weapons

                                    b. coined money

                                    c. borrowing of Phoenician shipbuilding and warfare techniques

                                    d. writing and the alphabet formed the Greek language

III. Citizens and Communities: The Greek City-States (LO3)

            A. City-States and Citizens

                        1. notion of citizenship seems to have originated partly in geography

                        2. hoplites: Greek infantrymen equipped with bronze helmets and armor,                                                   round shields, long spears, and short swords

                        3. city-state, citizens, tradition, and myth

            B. Monarchy, Oligarchy, Tyranny, Democracy

                        1. in the earliest times, communities were ruled by kings

                        2. monarchy then gave way to new forms of government that distributed                                    power more widely among male citizens

                                    a. oligarchy:  a minority of citizens dominated the government, and the                                                                     power of the majority was limited in various ways

                        3. but other city-states gave more power to the majority (particularly those               that developed into large commercial centers)

                                    a. in these city-states the common people were too numerous and                                              active to ignore,                                           

                                    b. in these cities, social conflicts sometimes led to the emergence                                                 of tyranny (rule by a dictator)

                                    c. but tyranny was often only a passing phase on the way to                                                         democracy (all government decisions were made by the majority                                          of male citizens)

                        4. although Greek city-states had many features in common, each was                                        individual in character

            C. Sparta: The Military Ideal

                        1. Spartans were descendants of Greeks who had conquered part of the                                      Southern mainland: Laconia

                        2. by 800BC they were a minority of landholders ruling over a majority of                                  helots (noncitizens forced to work for landholders)

                        3. Messenian helots, however, frequently rebelled

                                    a. this forced Spartans to accept a governmental system that put                                                  them under almost total domination by a few among themselves

                        4. by 500BC, policy decisions had been taken over by a council of elders

                        5. thus the Spartan government was a leading example of oligarchy

                        6. Spartan male life was dedicated entirely to the service of the state

                        7. the relative freedom of Spartan women aroused both admiration and                                      disapproval among other Greeks

                        8. to protect this way of life, Spartans tried to seal off their city-state from                                                 outside influences

            D. Athens: Freedom and Power

                        1. c.800BC many old-established communities in the Attica peninsula                                         merged to form a single city-state that was known by the name of the most                        important community: Athens

                        2. over the next 300 years, Athens grew to become the wealthiest and one                        of the most powerful city-states, largely as a result of overseas trade

                                    a. produced and exported wine and oil

                                    b. workshops produced weapons, pottery, and articles of silver,                                                    lead, and marble

                                    c. these were trade overseas for metal, timber, and grain

                        3. with a rising population and greater wealth came social and political                                        conflicts

                                    a. usually between aristocrats and increasingly numerous dēmos

                                    b. in conflicts with the aristocracy, the dēmos could generally find                                               aristocrats to lead them whom they respected and who wanted their                                    support

                        4. as a result, Athens passed through several stages of political growth,                                       beginning with monarchy and including both oligarchy and tyranny

                                    a. eventually political power was extended to all adult male                                                           citizens, with aristocrats becoming leaders instead of rulers

                        5. The Persian Wars

                                    a. in the sixth century BC, the Persians had conquered a realm that                                            stretched from the border of India to the Nile and the Aegean

                                    b. now the empire was within striking distance of the Greeks, and                                                Persia conquered the Greek city-states in western Asia Minor

                                    c. when Athens aided a rebellion by these city-states, Persian king                                             Darius sought to extend his empire into mainland Greece, c.494BC

                                    d. the Persians lost the decisive battle of Marathon in 490BC

                                    e. then in 480BC, the Athenian navy crushed the Persians at                                                       Salamis, and the Spartans faced the Persians on land at Thermopylae and            then at Platea

                        6. when final peace was made with Persia in 445 BC, Athens was the                                         controlling power of the Aegean Sea

                        7. after Persia’s defeat, Athenian democracy entered a “Golden Age”

                        8. the workings of democracy

                                    a. a Council of Five Hundred and roughly one thousand public                                                   officials were chosen annually by lot

                                    b. chief military officers, the Ten Generals, were chosen each year                                               by vote of the male citizens

                                    c. adult male citizens were a minority of the population of Athens

                                                i. the rest of the population was composed of adult female                                                           citizens, adult noncitizens, and children

                                                ii. adult male citizens probably made up no more than one-                                                           fifth of the total adult population

                                                iii. the remaining four-fifths had no say in government

                        9. men and women in  Athens

                                    a. women were highly visible in religious affairs

                                    b. not much is known of women’s life lower down the social scale                                               or outside the city

                        10. slaves

                                    a. were a diverse group; not all of them lived lives of total                                                               subjection and powerlessness

                                    b. most slaves were non-Greeks, or the descendants of non-Greeks

LO1

Many historians believe that the modern humans emerged from Africa about 200,000 years ago. About 50,000 years ago they started to spread across the globe. The Paleolithic age is the first period in prehistory. and that is when they used stone tools for cutting and stabbing into things. In this time people also lived as hunters and gatherers, and they would move from place to place. Neolithic is the second period about 10,000 years ago, with the Agricultural revolution. This revolution was a result of taming animals, adapting plants, many new skills. Farming started to evolve and the life of the people became villages. During the Neolithic age people also started to trade with others and they would use plants and animals for their human needs.

Powerpoint

Today my group presented their power point and we were up there for a good hour. We had more than 25 slides and when we finished class we were only on slide 21. We answered questions for the class and then they took notes on some of the important facts about the power point  To study for a future test I will be taking notes off our own power point.