Ancient Greece

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Geography of Greece

Greece is a peninsula

Some of it's city-states are Cornith, Thebes, Argos, Delphi, Troy, Sparta, Athens.

Greece was used to be called Macedonia.

Asia Minor Is actually called present day turkey.

Sparta= Peloponesese

Athens=Attica

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Early People of Greece

Some early people of Ancient Greece are the minoans, myceaneans, and dorians.

They all were some part of ancient Greece.

The minoans built temples for their gods, godesses.

The Myceaneans name came from an important city named myceane.

The Dorians were small remote villages that grew into independent communities known as city-states.

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Governments of Greece

Athens government is democracy.

Sparta was an oligarchy government.

4 different types of governments that ancient Greece used were oligarchy, democracy, tryanny, and monarchy.

COZAH

city-states, olympics, zbus, agora/Acriopolis, homer.

Key characteristics

Oligarchy: Is a form of government in which ruling power is in the hands of a few leaders.

key characteristics: They have a lot of people ruling and it started in 1100 B.C.E

Democracy: It was present in 500 B.C.E and it ended in 404 B.C.E

key characteristics: had all people rule power and there was a lot people attending the assenbly

Tyranny: It was present in the id 600's B.C.E and ended in 510 B.C.E

key characteristics: is ruled by the hand of the government and tryants held lots of power and cruel.

Monarchy: It was present in 2000 B.C.E and it ended in 1100 B.C.E

key characteristics: they had a good king ruling their government and the myceane monarchy survived until around the 1200's B.C.E.

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Sparta vs. Athens

Similarities: They both allow men to be citizens, they both had an assembly, they both made their own clothes at home, both taught physical training to kids, both learned military training, both groups wore simple clothing, both groups were unlucky but nothing good came for them.

Differences: Sparta's group was called Council of Elders while in Athens it is called Council of 500, in Sparta the assembly was held from the center of the city while in Athens it was on a top of a hill, Sparta did not have coins but they had gold bars while Athens used coins, education in Sparta was just reading and writing while in Athens they taught reading, writing, and arithmetic, woman and slaves in Sparta were able to choose their own husbands while in Athens you can choose your husband.