My First Day Learning About Greece

     Today in class I started to learn about ancient Greece. Since I missed some of the notes, it was a little hard to understand some of what Mr. Schick was talking about. But we talked about some vocab words like polis, monarchy, aristocracy, oligarchy, tyrant, aristocrats, and symposiums. Then we talked about politics in ancient Greece. In politics, no were no women, middle class, slaves, or certain aristocrats allowed in politics. Most of the time before the democracy, tyrants would seize control of the government. But there were cases where aristocrats would form alliances with hoplites, who were well-armed soldiers, to set up an alternative form of government called a tyranny. Some of more famous rulers include Draco, Solon, Cleisthenes, Isagoras, and Hippias. Draco ruled in 621 BCE and changed some things in the government. He made it so all Athenians are made equal under the law, he made it so dead was the punishment to many crimes, and said debt slavery is ok. Solon ruled in 594 BCE and made changes to Draco rules. He outlawed debt slaves, allowed the people to speak in the assembly, and said any citizen can press charges against wrongdoers. Cleisthenes ruled around 500 BCE and started to give people rights. He allowed people to submit laws ideas for a debate over them and created the Council of Five Hundred where people were chosen at random to be a part of this assembly. Hippias then took over and ruled from 527 BCE to 510 BCE. When his brother was murdered, he got mad and started to get angry. He was eventually ostracized from Athenian.

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