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The Baldwin Project: Famous Men of Greece by John H. Haaren and A. B. Poland - 1 views
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A hundred and fifty thousand of its inhabitants were sold into slavery and the state was made a Roman province.
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Athens, Thebes, Sparta and the other Greek states became, like Macedonia, parts of the Empire of Rome.
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about seventy-five years ago that she revolted from Turkey and became once more an independent country
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Seventh Grade - History - 0 views
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What made me so mad was that she didn't get her name on a gravestone. I wanted her to be remembered as more than just the general's wife and more than just in my memories. She taught me how to be the way I am and she told me to care for people even when you don't know how they'll react.
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"Yeah. It wasn't a wail, but it was the break-your-heart-one-tear-at-a-time type of crying that I really couldn't stand for more than thirty seconds," Ekati explained. "Are you kidding me? Wow." I couldn't believe how much these people cared for me.
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It hurt, but I did something that might not have changed anything, but now the people of Sparta were thinking and thinking leads to ideas. Ideas that can change the world.
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"dared to challenge me in public. Tais, you are bound to the ground you are on." The general raised his whip and struck. And struck and struck again.
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You remember how you said all those silly things about the geography and then your clothes morphed into those tights and a short toga?" Coriander laughed. "You looked weird for about a second and then you started crying and you looked normal again."
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Why in the world would you wait until tonight? I thought. What's wrong with right now?
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as I remembered Coriander was the "very cute, broad-shouldered, blonde" I noticed three seconds ago.
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Welcome to My 7th Grade Adventure - History with Holman - 2 views
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And in the middle of the Classic Age of Greece, it was important for Greeks to travel and trade.
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interest as each citizen grabbed a small stone from a large pile and started dropping it in two separate piles:
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each for one side of the debate. It was quite obvious that the pile for stopping the use of the boat was a bit larger, so without any counting, everybody declared that the majority ruled.
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"At least it's not Sparta. Oligarchies," a small woman nearby talking the elder that I had ran into before whispered.
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Starting to think about our representative democracy back in the United States of America, I headed back to my sleeping spot the previous night. The debate had taken so long, it was almost sunset. Direct democracies are much more different than our representative democracy, I thought.
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In a direct democracy, there are no separation of powers: citizens create laws, enforce laws, and act as judges, whereas in a representative democracy, some people have more power than others and citizens vote people to create laws, enforce laws, and act as judges. But both direct and representative democracies are different than theocracies or monarchies.
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Spartan Citizenship - Greosia - 1 views
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the only people eligible to receive the Agoge were Spartiates, or people who could trace their ancestry to the original inhabitants of the city.
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The other exception was that the sons of a helot could be enrolled as a syntrophos if a Spartiate formally adopted him and paid his way.
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Others in the state were the Perioikoi, who were free inhabitants of Spartan territory but were non-citizens, and the helots
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Descendants of non-Spartan citizens were not able to follow the agoge and Spartans who could not afford to pay the expenses of the Agoge could lose their citizenship.
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Ancient Greek History for Kids: Government - 3 views
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The Greek City-State Ancient Greece was made up of city-states. A city-state was a major city and the surrounding areas. Each city-state had its own rule and government. Sometimes the city-states fought each other. Athens and Sparta were the two largest city-states and they had many wars and battles. Types of Government There were three main types of government: Democracy - A government ruled by the people, or assembly. Officials and leaders were elected and all citizens had a say. Monarchy - A single ruler like a king. In Athens this ruler was called a Tyrant. Oligarchy - When the government is ruled by a small group. Over time some city-states, like Athens would change governments. Sometimes they were ruled by Tyrants and, at other times, they were a democracy.
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Ancient Greece Government History >> Ancient Greece The Ancient Greeks may be most famous for their ideas and philosophies on government and politics. It was in Greece, and particularly Athens, that democracy was first conceived and used as a primary form of government. The Greek City-State
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aws. Rather than vote for representatives, like we do, each citizen was expected to vote for every law.
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In order to vote, you had to be a citizen. However, not everyone who lived in Athens was a citizen. Only men who had completed their military training were counted as citize
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BBC - History - Ancient History in depth: The Democratic Experiment - 1 views
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Take politics for example: apart from the word itself (from polis, meaning city-state or community) many of the other basic political terms in our everyday vocabulary are borrowed from the ancient Greeks: monarchy, aristocracy, tyranny, oligarchy and - of course - democracy.
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There's a theory that the word demokratia was coined by democracy's enemies, members of the rich and aristocratic elite who did not like being outvoted by the common herd, their social and economic inferiors.
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By the time of Aristotle (fourth century BC) there were hundreds of Greek democracies. Greece in those times was not a single political entity but rather a collection of some 1,500 separate poleis or 'cities' scattered round the Mediterranean and Black Sea shores 'like frogs around a pond', as Plato once charmingly put it.
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monarchies, called 'tyrannies' in cases where the sole ruler had usurped power by force rather than inheritanc
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nder this political system that Athens successfully resisted the Persian onslaughts of 490 and 480/79
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victory in turn encouraged the poorest Athenians to demand a greater say in the running of their city
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Ephialtes and Pericles presided over a radicalisation of power that shifted the balance decisively to the poorest sections of society
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when Athens had been weakened by the catastrophic Peloponnesian War (431-404) these critics got their chance
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n 411 and again in 404 Athenian oligarchs led counter-revolutions that replaced democracy with extreme oligarchy
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'blips' such as the trial of Socrates - the restored Athenian democracy flourished stably and effectively for another 80 years
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total population of fifth-century Athens, including its home territory of Attica, at around 250,000 - men, women and children, free and unfree, enfranchised and disenfranchised. Of those
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This was thought to be the democratic way, since election favoured the rich, famous and powerful over the ordinary citizen.
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mid fifth century, office holders, jurymen, members of the city's main administrative Council of 500, and even Assembly attenders were paid a small sum from public funds to compensate them for time spent on political service away from field or workshop.
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adult male citizens need apply for the privileges and duties of democratic government, and a birth criterion of double descent - from an Athenian mother as well as father -
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Athenian democracy did not happen only in the Assembly and Council. The courts were also essentially political spaces, located symbolically right at the centre of the city.
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One distinctively Athenian democratic practice that aroused the special ire of the system's critics was the practice of ostracism -
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For almost 100 years ostracism fulfilled its function of aborting serious civil unrest or even civil war
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Power to the people, all the people, especially the poor majority, remained the guiding principle of Athenian democracy.