1. Athenian Democracy Causes and Consequences March 2017
CHW3M

2. Causes and Consequences
Shifts our focus to
the multiple causes and consequences of events, both intended and unintended

3. Personal Example: How I Got Here (to history class)
Long-term cause (underlying)
Medium-term cause
Short-term cause
Consequences (intended and unintended)
I have loved history since I was young because I loved hearing stories from my grandmother
I heard other students talk about how helpful and interesting this course was
The bell rang so I ran to class
I: I will be able to graduate from high school
U: I will be a better thinker 
The Big Six, pages

4. Cause and Consequence Vocabulary
Intended * Decided * Expected * Foresaw * Predicted * Catalyzed * Incited * Kindled * Triggered *Sparked * Lead to * Contributed to * Made possible *Resulted in * Encouraged * Blocked * Prevented * Made worse * Accelerated * Exacerbated * Strengthened * Reinforced * Weakened * Blocked

5. What Happened That Led to This?
Cause:
Consequence:
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Consequence:
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Consequence:
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Note: multiple causes may lead to one or more consequences. It’s not always so linear.

6. Causal Relationships

7. Who and/or What Makes Historical Change?
Move the X to the appropriate place where you think the most influence was.
Individuals: people like Solon, Cleisthenes, Pericles. X
Historical Conditions/Social Forces: such as economic development.
Groups: hoplites, aristocrats, wealthy non-aristocrats.

8. The Glass of Power Who had access to political power? In which order?
aristocrats
wealthy non-aristocrats
monarchs
hoplites and ordinary men, including poor men
women, foreigners, slaves

9. Classical Athens
After victory in the Persian Wars conditions existed for Athens to become a leader in:
Government – democracy
Economics – trade (“the big olive”)
Intellect – philosophy (eventually an ‘empire of the mind’)
Art and architecture – the Parthenon
Military / Empire – Delian League (a permanent alliance of city-states to protect against another Persian attack)

10. Take notes on philosophy, sophists, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle  from pages 145-147.
Read about Peloponnesian War, pages