We reviewed the video that we watched on Friday while Mr. Schick was on retreat. I didn't take notes really in complete sentences.
508 B.C. ordinary people turn on their rulers
Cleisthenes
Govern themselves
Aristocrat- member of the ruling class
Acropolis- out cropping of rock
Reading and writing was a rare skill
These people were not slaves but they were treated as badly as slaves
Aristotle - greek writer
Greece was divided into city states
Greece was not one big country
Athens
Sparta
If the food looked nasty it tasted nasty
Spartan life style- no frills
Spartans were a threat!
Their stories inspired the Greeks
The Odyssey and The lliad
Homer wrote both of these great books
Tyrant- somebody who comes in and seize control
Pisistratus-  Cleisthenes brother in law