Transcript Slide 1

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Public Life
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Agora
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Public market,
meeting place
Center of public life
Vendors (food, art,
wool, cloth, books…)
Mostly men
Public Buildings
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Temples and Gov.
buildings line Agora
Greek Architecture
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Private Life
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Homes made of mud
bricks, simple.
Courtyard surrounded
by rooms
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separated.
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Women
Secluded lives at home
(for protection)
 Very little freedoms
 Ran the home and
family
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Slavery
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Common in Athens and
all of Greece
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An estimated 1/3 of
Athenian population.
100,000
POWs, usually foreigners,
passed down from mother
Not considered citizens,
bottom social class.
Could buy freedom or be
freed by their masters
Slave labor made the
Greek life possible.
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Growing up in Sparta
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Males
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At age 7 left to live in
barracks
Trained for 13 years
Only given one cloak,
thin mat, very little
food (urged to steal)
Age 20 officially a
soldier, released at 60
Age 30 became part
of the assembly
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Growing up in Sparta
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Females
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Also trained in handto-hand combat
Strong, healthy
women = strong,
healthy babies
Could own land and
businesses
Run things while
men were at war
Answered to men
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Spartan Attitude
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Always put the cities
needs above your
own
No sissies allowed
Helots (slaves)
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Conquered people
owned by Sparta (the
city-state)
Worked the land
while Spartans
waged war
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The Persian Invasion
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499BC-449BC
Cyrus the Great
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Mid-500s BC began
expanding empire
520BC Persians gain
control of distant
Greek colonies
Battle of Marathon
Greeks unite to
defend against
Persians
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The Rise of Athens
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After Persian War,
Athens rises as most
powerful
Delian League
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Athens in charge
Used the League for
its own purposes
Political freedom at
home, suppressed
other city-states
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Paid tribute
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The Peloponnesian
War
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Sparta did not join
Delian League
City-states begin to
resent/fear Athens
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Look to Sparta for
protection
Form Peloponnesian
League
431BC – 401BC
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Athens vs. Sparta
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The Peloponnesian War
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Athens- strong navy
and wealth, bad
location (vulnerable)
Sparta- warrior culture,
inland
Athens brings people
into city for protection
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Sparta allies with
Persians, navy
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Overcrowded, Plague
Power struggles
Blockade 405BC
Athens surrenders
404BC