Part 3 of greeks for 9th graders

1. Greeks III
N o w t h e y ’ r e s e r i o u s

2. Governments
Monarchy - “rule of one”
Aristocracy - “rule of the best”
Oligarchy - “rule of the few”
Tyrant - One who rules illegally with the support of
the people
Democracy - “Rule of the people”

3. Right to vote

4. Cheaper equipment
Meant more people had the right to vote

5. Advances in Athenian
government
621 BCE - Draco actually
publishes the laws for all to
see, with harsh punishments
for violation
594 BCE - Solon allowed to
reform the laws and make
sweeping changes giving
more people freedom of
debate and abolishing debt
slavery and making more
people wealthy from trade

6. 546 BCE - Pisistratus
becomes tyrant by claiming
to have Athena’s approval
and supporting poor
farmers with tax reforms,
jobs on public building sites
and financial assistance
528 BCE - His son Hippias
takes over, but after his
brother is assassinated, he
is unpopular and paranoid.
He is driven out in
510 BCE by.....

7. Cleisthenes
He was an aristocrat who had been exiled by
Hippias
Allowed all citizens to submit and debate laws
Invented the Council of 500 to vote on laws

8. Persian Expansion

9. Darius
Persian Emperor
who demanded
Greek submission
Invaded when
Athens and
Sparta insulted
him
Landed at
Marathon