1. Entry Ticket:
Back to the deserted island! We’ve survived. Now we need to set up a government. Any ideas?

2. Ancient Greece
Unit 4

3. Geography 4 3 A C 2 B 1 Balkan Peninsula Black Sea Peloponnesus
Dardanelles 2
Mediterranean Sea B
Asia Minor
Aegean
Sea 1

4. Geography 4 3 A C 2 B 1 Black Sea Balkan Peninsula Dardanelles Aegean
Asia Minor 2
Peloponnesus
Peninsula B
Mediterranean Sea 1

5. Geography Small mountain ranges cut up the Greek mainland.
Short rivers made travel across Greece difficult.
How did geography shape the formation of government in ancient Greece?

7. Rise of Greek city-states
A Form of government that includes a town or city and the surrounding land controlled by it.
Mountains and short rivers made it difficult to unite. Instead, the people formed city-states.
Greek word for city-state = Polis

8. Polis

9. Polis Built on a hill called an acropolis
Each Polis was considered independent and self- sufficient

10. 214,114 people live in Richmond, VA today!
Polis Residents
214,114 people live in Richmond, VA today!
About 10,000 people per polis
Only free adult males had citizenship rights
Women and slaves did not have citizenship
Foreigners (called metics) did not have citizenship

11. Leadership in the Polis
A series of tyrants ruled ancient Greek Poleis
Soldiers overthrew these rulers
Started the idea of “popular government”
The idea that people can and should rule themselves

12. A government in which citizens take part.
Democracy is born!
Democracy:
“Rule by the people”
A government in which citizens take part.
Yet, only free males had political rights and the responsibility of civic participation in government.

13. Economics and Society in the Polis
The polis marketplace was called the agora
This was the main public meeting place

14. Economics and Society in the Polis
Had agriculture but poor soil encouraged trade for food
Shifted from a barter economy to a money economy (coins)

15. The VIPs (Very Important Poleis)
Athens Sparta

16. Which is Which?
Athens
Sparta