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| When did people go to the Acropolis? |
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| In times of danger or to pray. |
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| A place where people met to argue about politics and to buy and sell things. Also considered a marketplace |
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| What is the Agora similar to in today's world? |
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| discs say guilty or non-guilty in court. |
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| Who represented the cases in court? |
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| the people had to present their own cases in court. |
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| What does our word "politics" come from? |
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| The Greek word politikos, which means of the city. |
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| How did shoemakers make shoes? |
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| By cutting leather around the perimeter of a persons foot and adding a strap. |
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| At what age did boys begin school? |
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| What did boys learn in school? |
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| Reading, Writing, arithmetic, music, and sports. |
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| Who gave the girls an education? |
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| Where would you find most Athenian girls and women? |
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| What shape was the Greek theater? |
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| What were the theater seats made from? |
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| Who played the all parts in plays? |
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| Men with masks and padding. |
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| What are the four different parts of the theater? |
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| The orchestra, chorus, stage, and altar. |
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| What took place and what was near and around the stoas? |
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| Offices behind stoas,Schools, teachers and students around stoas, and shopping and trading went on around the stoas. |
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| What did fountain wells do? |
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| Gave clean water to EVERYONE. |
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| Why was there a fountain house in the Agora? |
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| Few private wells, and no running water. |
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| What is the Bouleuterion for? |
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| Originally built for assembly meetings. |
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| What is another word for Bouleuterion? |
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| What did the police at the Agora do? |
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| Checked that prices were fair, checked measures, scales, and weights for foul play,prevented crime, and patrolled the Agora. |
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| What is Hera the goddess of? |
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| Marriage, birth, women, queens |
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| What is an interesting fact about Hera? |
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| Jealous of Zeus's other wives, Queen of the Gods, married to Zeus. |
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| What is Hephaestus the god of? |
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| What are Hephaestus's symbols? |
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| gold robots, volcanoes, jewels |
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| What is some interesting info about Hephaestus? |
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| What is Aphrodite the Goddess of? |
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| What are Aphrodite's symbols? |
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| What is some interesting info on Aphrodite? |
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| Born out of the ocean, no parents |
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| Blood, sword, or war chariot |
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| What is some interesting info on Ares? |
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| Vain, Handsome, hated pain but loved battle, had a love affair with Aphrodite |
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| What is Athena the Goddess of? |
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| Wisdom, and battle strategy |
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| What are Athena's symbols? |
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| What is some interesting info on Athena? |
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| Athena came out of Zeus's head. |
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| What is Poseidon the god of? |
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| What are Poseidon's symbols? |
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| What is Apollo the God of? |
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| What are Apollo's symbols? |
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| What are the benefits of Aristocracy? |
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| Aristocrats owned horses, chariots, and the best weapons. Commoners just had to do what they were told, no thinking. Everybody got richer because of development and trade. |
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| What are the benefits of tyranny? |
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| City-states became richer. More freedom for commoners, kind tyrants who represent out interests well. Could be better than the king and had the respect of people to get there (not born into ruling at first). Sometimes they made changes for the better. Better military because they had swords, spears, etc. |
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| What are the benefits of democracy? |
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| Fair for all citizens. Canceled all debt or money owed to other people. Citizens govern themselves. Citizens interests are represented by rulers. Laws were changed for the better. Freed wrongly enslaved and imprisoned people. |
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| What are the detriments of Aristocracy? |
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| They made decisions in their own self-interest. Controlled commoners, kept rebellion down. Inherited power, didn't earn it. Lived off the work of the people. No power for merchants in decision making. Nobles had a better life than others, not a fair distribution. Lived at the will of the aristocrats. Commoners had no say in who led. Kings may not have experience and may not be effective leaders. |
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| What are the detriments of Tyranny? |
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| Tyrants are hard to remove once in. Took power by force. Cruel. Not everybody gets to choose, no say. Unstable because you don't know who will lead next. They could put people in jail. They could rule better. They could take away rights. |
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| What are the detriments of democracy? |
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| Only men can be citizens.. Only 1 in 5 men were citizens. Some people were slaves. |
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| What does "Aristocracy" mean? |
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| a form of government in which rich and powerful families. |
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| ruler who took power by force. |
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| What does "Tyranny" mean? |
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| a form of government in which tyrants rule. |
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| What does "Democracy" mean? |
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| a form of government in which people rule. |
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| What does "peninsula" mean? Is Greece one? |
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| A peninsula is an area of land almost completely surrounded by water and connected to the mainland by a narrow strip of land. No part of Greece is far from the sea. Yes. |
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| Are mountains the major land forms of Greece? Why? |
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| Greece's major landforms are mountains and most of it islands are mountain peaks. Only one-fifth of Greece is farmland. |
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| What did people do instead of farm? |
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| Greeks became traders and sailors. Some people left Greece to find colonies far away. |
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| Why were ancient Greek communities so separate from each other? |
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| Greece's land forms were mainly mountains and islands, when you lived on a mountain or and island it was hard to travel so communities created their own beliefs and skills. |
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| What are some places that were hard to travel to and from in Greece but many people lived there? |
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| Some people lived on real islands separated by water. Some people lived on land-islands" separated by mountains. |
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| Because Greece was so separated in beliefs, and customs, what did they do to appear so disconnected? |
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| They went to war to protect themselves. They fought other communities of Greece. although thy shared the same heritage and language, and they worshiped the same gods, they were not united. |
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