End of Chapter 3

Today in class we talked about our test on Monday. Mr. Schick will not be here on Monday so we can't use our blogs. we are allowed to use our texts books. After we talked about the test we finished up the Chapter 3 outline.  The last part of it was Athens: Freedom and Power.  In 800 BC many old established communities in the Attica Peninsula merged to form a single city-state that was known by the name of the most important community: Athens. Over the next 300 year, Athens grew to become the wealthiest and one of the most popular city-states, largely as a result of overseas trade.  Athens produced and exported wine and oil. There workshops  produced weapons, pottery, and articles of silver, lead, and marble. With a rising population and greater wealth came social and political conflicts. Usually between aristocrats, which were people who owned land, and increasingly numerous demos, which were regular people that worked for the aristocrats. In the conflicts with the aristocrats, the demos could generally find aristocrats to lead them whom they respected and who wanted their support. As a result, Athens passed through several stage of political government, beginning with monarchy and including both oligarchy and tryanny. Eventually politic power was extended to all adult male citizens, with aristocrats becoming leaders instead of rulers. After we finished going over the outline we watched the  video, The Persians and Greeks: Crash Course with John Green.