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Greece: Questions on Democracy CHW3M Coming Out of the Dark Ages 1. What do “national literature and religion” refer to? – – 2. 3. How did these two things help Greeks come out of the dark ages? What is the significance of a glorious past? What skills did the Greeks learn from others as a result of increased foreign contact? How did the Olympics help unify the Greeks? Political Development Monarchy 1. 2. 3. 4. What jobs did the king do? Did he have total power? Who also played a big role in government? What did they do? Did this same group feel it got enough power? Political Development, con’t Aristocracy 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. – What does arbitrary mean? What is the problem with unwritten laws? Who suffered at the hands of the aristocrats? Who had as much wealth, maybe more as aristocrats, but not the power? How did this make them feel? What was their military role? Video: Who was an aristocratic ruler in the video? Political Development, con’t Hoplite Warfare 1. 2. 3. – This new style of fighting relied on having a lot of ________________s What did their new military role give the common people a desire for? How did they displace aristocrats from the centre of power? Video: Who did hoplites defeat in the video? Political Development, con’t Tyranny 1. Was a Greek tyrant necessarily seizing power for bad reasons? – – Give proof. Video: Give an example of negative tyrant from the video. Video: Give an example of a positive tyrant (benevolent) from the video. Solon 1. What contributions did he make to democracy as archon? – – Who could now run for government offices? What did he create? How was it chosen? What did it do? Video: Is his omission from the video significant? Why or why not? Cleisthenes 1. What was the difference between the council of 400 and the council of 500? Video: why do you think the video centres so much on his contributions to democracy in Athens? Is this right or wrong, in your opinion? Economic Development 1. 2. 3. 4. When did prosperity start to come to Athens? How did prosperity influence attitudes about democracy? How did Themistocles manipulate Athens’s newfound wealth? What did Pericles do with Athens’s wealth? Social Development 1. 2. 3. Give evidence that aristocrats in Greek society were becoming less influential. Give evidence that common people were becoming more influential. Which came first, political development or social development in this area? Golden Age 1. 2. How did political, economic and social developments come together to make a golden age? Did Pericles squander all Athens had achieved? Explain. Socrates Socrates was not a democrat. However, his death initiated a new era in Athenian history. 1. Describe the lesson Athens learned from his death.