Blog Week 8 - 2
   Greece
·      polis: fundamental political unit, made up of a city and the surrounding countryside
o   politics (affairs of the cities), policy, political, etc.
·       monarchy: rule by a single person (a king, in Greece)
·       aristocracy: rule by a small group of noble, very rich, landowning families
·       oligarchy: wealthy groups, dissatisfied with aristocratic rule, who seized power (often with military help)
·       tyrant: powerful individual who seized control by appealing to the common people for support
·      During the seventh and sixth centuries BCE, aristocrats ran the show in most of Greece
·      Aristocrats: members of the ruling class
·      symposiums, meetings where the elite men would enjoy wine and poetry, performances while discussing politics.
·      no women (except the entertainment)
·       no middle class
·       no slaves
·       sometimes, even certain aristocrats were excluded
·      Draco (621 BCE)
o   all Athenians (rich or poor) are equal under the law
o   but death is the punishment for many crimes
o   debt slavery is OK (work as a slave to repay debts)
·       Solon’s reforms (594 BCE)
o   outlaws debt slavery
o  all Athenian citizens can speak at the assembly
o  any citizen can press charges against wrongdoers
more reforms (around 500 BCE):
·       allowed all citizens to submit laws for debate at the assembly
·       created the Council of Five Hundred (members chosen at random, to counsel the assembly)
·      Only free adult male property owners born in Athens were considered citizens

·       sorry, women, slaves, “foreigners”

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