I' Greek Roots of Democracy

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I. Greek Roots of Democracy

• Unit 1

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A. Rise of Greek City-States
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1. Governing City-states

• City-state political unit of city surrounding
  land

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• Polis
• Acropolis- temples to gods
• Walled city- market, theatre, public buildings,
  homes

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• 750-500 B.C.
• Power shift from monarchy to noble landowners

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2. Changes in Warfare

• Increase middle class power
• Iron weapons more own protect--- greater sense
  of unity

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Phalanx

• Formation
• Requires practice--- sense of unity
• Reduce class differences
• Sparta (discipline) v. Athens (individual
  political rights)

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3. Sparta Nation of Soldiers

• Military state
• 2 Kings Council of Elders
• Assembly approve major decisions
• Citizen male, native, over 30

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4. Athens A Limited Democracy

• Democracy Gov by the people
• Monarcharistocracy---democracy
• Discontent w/ aristocracy spreads----move to
  democracy

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Solon, 594 B.C.

• Outlaw slavery
• Freed enslaved to pay debt
• Open offices to citizens
• Gave assembly more say
• Discontent led to tyranny

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Pisistratus, 546 B.C.

• Took pwr
• Gave farmers poor more pwr
• Weakened aristocracy

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Cleisthenes, 507 B.C.

• Greater citizen role
• Council of 500 chosen by lot
• Made the assembly a real legislature (lawmaking
  body)

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B. The Persian Wars
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Persia Asia Minor-India
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Persia threatens Greece
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490 B.C. Persians land _at_ Marathon
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• Persia forced to retreat

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490 B.C. Persians land _at_ Marathon
Persia forced to retreat
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500 B.C.

• Larger Persian army lands
• Sparta Athens join to defend defeat Persia

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501 B.C.

• Greeks defeat Persians on Asia Minor
• End of Persian threat

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C. Athens in Age of Pericles460-429 B.C.
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1. Political Life

• Direct democracy
• Believed all males, regardless of wealth/class,
  should be involved in govt
• Pays public office
• Serve on juries

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2. Funeral Oration

• Athenian pwr rests not of a minority but of the
  whole people
• Rights duties of individual
• Expression of democratic ideals

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3. Economic Cultural Life

• Rebuilt Acropolis
• Creates jobs
• Reminds that gods favored Athenians

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D. Greek Philosophers
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4. Peloponnesian War

• Athens v. Sparta
• 27 yr fight
• 404 B.C. Sparta captures Athens
• End of democracy

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1. Moral Ethical Principles

• Idea of goodness
• Est standards of human behavior
• Athens
• ?? Accepted ideas
• Success imp

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2. Socrates Citizenship

• Didnt write- know of him b/c Plato
• What is the greatest good?
• Socratic method
• ?? challenge, Examine ans, Threatened Athenian
  tradition

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• _at_ 70 put on trial
• Corrupt youth
• Fail to respect gods
• Condemned to death

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3. Plato Reason

• Reason, not the experience of the senses, leads
  to genuine knowledge
• By rational thought, people can discover
  unchanging ethical principles, recognize their
  perfect beauty learn how to org society

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Distrust democ b/c killed Socrates
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• state should regulate all aspect of lives, to
  best provide for their interests
• Ideal society divided into 3 classes workers,
  soldiers, philosophers
• Ideal society divided based on a process of
  examination, rather than birth or wealth

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4. Aristotle Rule of Law

• Govt by many
• Suspicious of Democracy
• Pro- constitutional govt by middle class- polity

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• City-state best natural form of community
• Rulers must be subject to the law
• golden mean moderate course btwn extremes
• Reason is guiding force for learning
• Est Lyceum (study of all knowledge)

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E. Alexander Hellenistic Age
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1. Conquest of Persia

• Alexander 20yrs w/ throne, sets to conquer Persia
• 334-327 B.C. Mediterranean Sea- Middle
  East-Central Asia- India

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Alexander the Great
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2. Legacy of Alexander

• Alexander dies, empire crumbles
• Blends eastern western cultures
• Citizens rule cities, governors manage, king
  ultimate control

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Stoicism

• Avoid desires disappointment by accept what
  life brought
• Preach moral standards (dignity equality) while
  unequal in society, morally equal b/c pwr of
  reason

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• Rome emerges
• 133 B.C. conquests in Asia Minor replaces
  Greece in Mediterranean
• Greek Impact
• Law, freedom, justice, govt

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