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Where is Athens located?

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Coast of the Aegean Sea

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Who was Athens ruled by at first

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The kings

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Who ruled Athens after 750 BCE

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Nobles, merchants and artisans

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What is an oligarchy

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A form of government where only certain people had a say in the government.

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Land ownership

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People had disagreements of this

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Why did the nobles agree to make reforms which changed the government style of Athens?

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So there wouldn’t be any uprisings

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Who was the first reforming leader of Athens

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Draco

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How was Draco as a ruler

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His reforms were too harsh

Some of his laws included Slavery

Gave the death penalty

His punishments caused a revolution

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Who was the second ruler in 594 BCE

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Solon

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Who is Solon

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The ruler after Draco. He repeated all of the same laws as Draco

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What was the constitution written by Solon?

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Showed how the rules for the government will work

This was the first ever in the world

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What did Solon do for the government

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Sets limits to land ownership and said you could only be a citizen if you owned land

Ordered fathers to teacher their sons to trade to improve their education

More athenians were involved in gov and trade increases.

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How could you become an Athens citizen

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You had to own land - but women, children and slaves couldn’t be citizens

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The assembly

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Had the power to pass laws

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Who moved to Athens by they could have citizenship rights

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Many artisans and from all over Greece

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What class of people didn’t like Solon

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The rich, because they thought his reforms went too far. They didn’t like what he did about the rules of land ownership because it gave more people citizenship rights

The poor too, because they thought his reforms didn’t go far enough. They couldn’t be citizens because they couldn’t own land

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Who was the third leader of Athens

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Piesistratus

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Peisistratus

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The poor really liked him because he further limited land ownership and forced the rich to sell pieces of their land to farmers

You don’t have to own land to be a citizen anymore

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What happened to peisistratus sons?

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They were killed by Spartans because they said that they could
Take over Sparta if they wanted to

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Who was the fourth leader

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Cleisthenes

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Cleisthenes

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New leader who didn’t anger Sparta

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What did cleisthenes do

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He created worlds first democratic constitution

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What is democratic constitution

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It gave all citizens equality, except not women, children and slaves

He also gave athenians freedom of speech

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How old were males in the assembly

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How many generals ran the army
10 generals
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The council of five hundred
Ran the daily business of Athens They were chosen by lottery randomly All Athenian names were put into a pot and 500 names were chosen You could only be on the council twice in your life.
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Why did athenians choose the council of 500 this way
They didn't think elections were far because they thought the rich people had an unfair advantage
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Athenian education
Citizens sent their sons to school They had a tutor or went to private school - there weren't public schools
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When did kids start school
School started @ 7 years old and boys learned all subjects
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18 year old boys
Became full citizens and swore an oath at the temple of Zeus to make Athens a better place and show their honor, follow the constitution and respect the gods
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Persia
In Asia Minor or present day turkey
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Who was at war with Persia
Ionia
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What did the Ionians want from Greece
They wanted Greece to help them gain freedom from Persia
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King Darius
King of the Persians who wanted to punish the Greek city states for interfering with their war
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Darius's plan to attack Athens
Sent 600 ships to Greece to invade Athens and thought that the city states would surrender. The athenians waited and watched the Persians and then attacked them from behind in the Battle of Marathon. The Persians were defeated and Darius decided to leave since he didn't have an army anymore so left and went back to Persia
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The battle of marathon
Persians were defeated by the athenians when they steadied them from behind. This made Darius retreat.
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Silver mines
Athens found silver minds and invested the money to make new warships
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New Athenian warships
Thremes; they had three levels of towers on each side and gave Athens the largest army in Greece
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What happened after Darius died?
His son, Xerxes, returned to Athens with 250,000 troops. 20 city states teamed up against Persia to stop them.
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Who lead the army against Persia
Sparta
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Who lead the army against Persia
Athens
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Thermopylae
A very narrow mountain pass
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The battle of Thermopylae
7,000 soldiers from 20 city states went north to stop the Persians and prepared to fight in the narrow mountain pass. 300 Spartans held the Persians for 3 days, but eventually they were all nurseries by the Persians. Then the Persians got to Athens, they burned it to the ground
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The battle of salamis
Greek navy got the Persians into a narrow strait between Athens and salamis The Greeks defeated them because the Persians weren't as fast Xerxes went back to Persia after this
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The Delian league
Many city states came together to be protect each other from Persia. Sparta didn't join. The headquarters were in Delos Athens controlled the navy
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Athens and the Delian leagues
Athens became Too controlling and paranoid about other ships sailing in the Aegean Sea so told city states that they had to request permission to sail. All criminal cases were now brought to Athens Trade was controlled by Athens
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What did the other Delian league city states become
Apart of the Athenian empire
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Who was the main leader during the Delian league
Pericles
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Pericles
Really popular ruler in Athens and was given the nickname the "first citizen" He got the Delian League to pay to rebuild Athens. This is when the Parthenon was built Built long walls to protect Athens Lead Athens for 30 years
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The Peloponessian League
Created to form an alliance for city states in the Peloponnesus. Sparta was a member
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Helots
Spartan helots rebelled and Athens sent help - this made Sparta mad
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Corinth vs Megara
Trade Rivals Megara and Athens attacked Corinth Sparta and Corinth were against Athens and Megara - started peloponnessian war
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What happened in Athens with the plague
A plague attacked and killed 1/3-1/4 of the athenians and Pericles. Athens surrendered after this and lost the war.
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What happened to the athenians after the war?
Some moves to Ionia and became mercenaries for Persia Sparta helped put Athens back together and didn't punish them badly out of respect
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Effects of the war
Greeks started to lose a sense of community and they had spent a lot of money on war
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Phillip of Macedonia
Conquered Greek city states.

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