Greece
Greece
Greece
Greece
(Balkan - Aegean) 1,200 300 B.C.
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City State: Polis
Colonization
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Birth of Democracy
- Demands for greater political participation leading to social and political reforms for the people.
- Was in the city of Athens, where these reforms become more important. - These reforms culminated with the establishment of a new form of government known as democracy, in which power was exercised by all citizens.
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Democratic Institutions
ECCLESIA
Assembly of 40,000 citizens (vote in laws, war and ostracism) Annually Chosen by lottery
10 Strategists
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mattrer. - Citizens: free men of age, born from Athenian citizen father and mother. - Has a right to participate in political life and to be protected by law, forced into the army and pay taxes.
- They were a minority; women or foreigners (metics) and slaves had not civil rights..
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They created the Theater, the Philosophy and the Olympics Games.
Philosophy: Trying to explain the origin and nature of man and what surrounds us: Socrates, Plato and Aristotle.
Literature: Besides writing poetry, invented the theater. The Iliad and The Odyssey, by Homer. Theater: Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides.
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Mathematics: Pythagoras, with his famous theorem and Euclid, promoter of geometry. Physics: Archimedes, with his principle. Medicine: Hippocratic, oath.
Astronomy: Aristarchus of Samos defended that the Earth was round and revolved around the Sun.
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Sculpture: Representations of human beings. Their characteristics were: Beauty, Proportion and Movement
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Ancient Greece
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Philosophy: Plato: The Myth of the Cave Psychology: King Oedipus Archeologist: The Discovery of Troy Society: A History of democracy
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