West Civ Blog: Matt and Phil Taught the Class

Today in class, Matt and Phil taught the class. They read and talked about the notes that they took on LO3. Some notes that they had are:

Only a from thousands live in Greek City State, but Athens reached up to 250,000
Phalanx: a unit of several hundred hoplites, who closed ranks by joining shields when approaching the enemy
Tyranny: rule by a self-proclaimed
A tyrant in ancient Greek, wasn't a ruthless person. This was just a person who took oven
Over time the word "tyrant" became made in a bad way
The way of life that dedicated male citizens entirely to the service of the state. The farms were worked by the helots.
Male citizens took part in democracy
No: women, children, immigrants, slaves, etc.
Triremes: massive fighting vessels with banks of oars. Men steered the oars three rows of oars (triremes- "tri")
Sparta: the military idea
Helots: non citizens forced to work for landholders in the ancient city-state of Sparta
The Spartans were the descendants of Greeks who had conquered part of the southern mainland (The territory of Laconia)

*Know Geographic Features of Greece

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