Blog post 12

Today in class Mr. Schick was out, so Mrs. Ferry was our sub. We read pages 127-133 in our textbooks. The text was focused on Warring city-States. The main idea was power and authority. The growth of city-states in Greece led to the development of several political systems, including democracy. It matters now because many political systems in today's world mirror the varied forms of government that evolved in Greece.   


Terms that we need to know are acropolis, monarchy, aristocracy, oligarchy, tyrant, democracy, helot, phalanx
An oligarchy is a government ruled by a few powerful people. Tyrants were powerful individuals, usually nobles or other wealthy citizens, they were rulers. A democracy is a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives. Helots are peasants forced to stay on the land they worked. 


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