Chapter 5.2 Guided Reading and Review

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Chapter 5.2 Guided Reading and Review

• The Rise of the Greek City-States

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A. Main Ideas

• 1. Effect Greeks built individual city-states
  cut off from one another by land or sea.

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A. Main Ideas

• 2. Effect Greeks became skilled sailors,
  bringing back goods and ideas to Greece.

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A. Main Ideas

• 3. Cause as trade expanded a new Greek middle
  class emerged that challenged the nobles for
  power and came to rule in some city-states.

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A. Main Ideas

• 4. Effect Spartans became excellent soldiers who
  were prepared for their roles as citizens.

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A. Main Ideas

• 5. Cause Turmoil in Athens increased when
  farmers fell on hard times and had to sell
  themselves and their families into slavery.

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B. Reviewing Key Terms

• 6. Polis
• A unique version of the city-state where the
  city-state was built on two levels. On the
  hilltop was the acropolis with temples. On the
  flatter ground below stood the marketplace,
  homes, and public buildings.

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B. Reviewing Key Terms

• 7. Aristocracy
• Government rule by the land holding elite.

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B. Reviewing Key Terms

• 8. oligarchy
• Government rule by a powerful elite, usually the
  business class.

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B. Reviewing Key Terms

• 9. Democracy
• Government by the people

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B. Reviewing Key Terms

• 10. Tyrant
• Person who gained power by force. In ancient
  Greece, tyrants were influential opportunists
  that came to power by securing the support of
  different factions. The word "tyrannos" then
  carried no ethical censure it simply referred to
  anyone, good or bad, who obtained executive power
  in a polis by unconventional means. Support for
  the tyrants came from the growing middle class
  and from the peasants who had no land or were in
  debt to the wealthy land owners. It is true that
  they had no legal right to rule, but the people
  preferred them over kings or the aristocracy. The
  Greek tyrants stayed in power by using mercenary
  soldiers from outside of their respective
  city-state.

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B. Reviewing Key Terms

• 11. Legislature
• A law making body.

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B. Reviewing Key Terms

• 6. Zeus
• Most powerful god on Mount Olympus..

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• Take out Textbooks
• Open to Page 109
• Answer Questions 1 through 6 on the back of the
  worksheet
• On Question 1 just identify Peloponnesus
  Solon and Cleisthenes
• On Question 2 just define acropolis
  monarchy phalanx and helot
• On Questions 3 through 6, write question and
  answer in complete sentence(s)