History of Western Civilisation - Wednesday 5th Period: Discussion 3: Greek Politics and War

[prof-methos.livejournal.com]

All right, class. I've received a few death threats for the way I treated the Peloponnesian War in the last class... which is to say, I didn't. If you care... good for you. I don't.

So, now we're going to talk about Greek Politics and War. That is only slightly an oxymoron.

Your homework, due next Tuesday but turned in to this post is to give me at least one hundred words craftily cut-and-pasted, possibly from here on some aspect of Greek political life. Go.

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Re: HOMEWORK: Western Civ Disc 3

[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

The Beginning of Democracy in Greece

In 510 BC, the city-state of Athens created the first democratic government, and soon other Greek city-states imitated them. Even city-states that weren't Greek, like Carthage and Rome, experimented with giving the poor people more power at this time. But Athenian democracy did not really give power to everyone. Most of the people in Athens couldn't vote - no women, no slaves, no foreigners (even Greeks from other city-states), no children. And also, Athens at this time had an empire, ruling over many other Greek city-states, and none of those people living in the other city-states could vote either. Of course it is a lot easier to have a democratic government when you are only deciding what other people should do.

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