We Had A Sub Today

Today in Western Civ Mr. Schick was out sick, @ Mr. Schick feel better :). But anyways here is the work we did today:

3. An aristocracy differs from an oligarchy because an aristocracy is a government ruled by a small group of noble, landowning families. An oligarchy is a government ruled by a few powerful people.

4. The contributions Solon and Cleisthenes made to the development of Athenian democracy were:

• Solon
• outlawed debt slavery 
• organized Athenians into 4 social classes according to wealth 
• let all citizens rich or poor participate in the assembly 
• introduced the legal concept that any citizen could bring charges against wrongdoers 
• Cleisthenes 
• broke up the power of nobility by organizing citizens into 10 groups based on where they lived rather than wealth 
• increased the power of the assembly by allowing all citizens to submit laws for debate and passage 
• created the Council of 500 that proposed laws and counseled the assembly 

6. Living in Athens was different from living in Sparta because they both had different forms of government and what a citizen was considered to be. Some examples: 

• Athens 
• was a democracy 
• citizens participated in political decision making 
• Council of 500
• only sons of wealthy families received education and prepared them to be good citizens 
• boys went to military school to prepare for defending Athens
• girls did not attend school, they stayed at home to be educated by their mothers and learned about housework and other things, some learned to read and write
• most women had little to do with Athens outside the home 
• Sparta 
• was a military state 
• government had several branches and two kings and 5 elected officials 
• Council of Elders 
• powerful army/military 
• boys AND girls received military training and were taught the same things at the same place, women had a lot of freedom which was weird to places like Athens (you GO Sparta)