1. The One about the City-States
Mrs. Robinson
World History
iMater Academy
The One about the City-States 1

2. Copy the White!
Copy the yellow!
Only Read Red!

3. Pg.115 The City-State …could be a town, city or even a village.
Was known as the polis  place for people to have political, social and religious activities.
Acropolis was the meeting place of the polis.
- Normally on top of a hill.
The agora was the open-air market and meeting place of a Greek Polis.
- Usually below the acropolis.
Pg.115

4. The Acropolis

5. Agora

6. Slaves and Resident Aliens
The Establishment
City-states varied greatly in size and population.
Polis consisted of three types of persons:
City-states distrusted one another and were very independent.
Adult Males
Citizens with political rights
Women and Children
Citizens with no political rights
Slaves and Resident Aliens
Noncitizens
Slavery was not based on race in ancient Greece.
Slaves were prisoners of war or debt slaves who could not repay a debt.

7. The Muscle The polis had a heavily armed infantry known as hoplites..
- Each had a round shield, a short sword, and a spear about 9 feet long.

8. The Phalanx The Eagle Hoplite battle formation.
A formation that created a wall of shields to protect the soldiers.
- Troops were disciplined to hold a line which created a nearly impenetrable forest of points to the front.

9. Macedonia
Troy
Aegean
Ionia
Athens
Peloponnesus
Sparta
Crete
Knossos

10. The Colonies Geography Skills pg.117
As Greece became too crowded, the Greeks moved and started new colonies.
-Lead to increase in trade.
-Exported pottery, wine and olive oil.
As trade increased, Greece shifted from a barter economy based on trade… to a money economy with coins.
Geography Skills pg.117

11. Building colonies spread Hellenic (Greek) culture throughout the Aegean and into the Mediterranean.

12. Sparta & Athens - City-States

13. Sparta Sparta was a military state  all men became soldiers.
Sparta would conquer all the city-states around it to get more land.
The people they captured, called helots, were made to work for the Spartans.

14. pg. 118

15. Men were in the army until they were 60

16. Spartan Government Gorgo Speech Oligarchy Ephors & 2 Kings
Council of Elders

17. Athens…

19. Athens
Athens went through three (3) different governments:
1. Monarchy with Kings
2. Oligarchy led by Aristocrats
3. **Council of men that made laws an Assembly of citizens would then vote on the laws.
**The Council and Assembly became the basis for the world’s 1st Democracy