Friday's Assignment

Chapter 10 Sections 1 and 2: Study Questions

1)What was the acropolis and what stood there?
2) The average city-state, or polis, contained how many people?
3) How was Sparta's government formed?
4) Who ruled Sparta?
5) Who were the helots and what did they do in Sparta?
6)  Discuss, or outline, the life of a Spartan boy.
7)  Discuss the life of a Sparta woman.  How were Spartan women more free than other Greek women at the time?
8) Explain the quote, "Come home with your shield or on it".  How does this quote reinforce Spartan ideas?

Section 3: Study Questions (for those of you who are ahead)

1) Where was Athens located?
2) Why did Athens change its government?
3) Who was Draco and Solon?  What did they do?
4) Who created the world's first Democratic Constitution?
5) What was the Council of 500?  How were its members chosen?
6)  Describe the Battle of Marathon.
7) How did the Greeks eventually defeat the Persians?
8) Who was Pericles?
9) What was the Peloponnesian War and what was its outcome?