The City-State & Democracy

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1. What is a City-State? What were some of the more famous City-States?

2. Watch the video and answer the following questions

    a. Why were Athens and Sparta so different?

    b. What type of government did the city of Athens have?

    c. What type of government did Sparta have? 

    d. What was the Athenian economy based on?

    e. What did the Spartan economy rely on? 

    f.  Which city state would you rather live in? Why?         

3. Watch the Edpuzzle and answer the questions.

4. Read the article on City-States and explain what "polis" means? 

5. Kahoot! Athens and Sparta. 

6. Watch the movie and answer the following questions.

    a. How was Greece organized?

    b. What did each city-state have?

    c. What were the different types of governments in city-states?

    d. What role did religion play in uniting the city states? 

    e. Did all Greeks share a language? 

    f.  Name 5 different city states besides Sparta and Athens?

    g. What role did the Olympics have in uniting the cities?      

7. Look at the graph below and answer the following questions.  

    Weather in Sparta

    a. What is the average temperature in January? 

    b. What is the average temperature in July?

    c. What is the difference between the Min and the Max temperature in May? 

    d. What is the hottest and coolest months in Sparta? 

8. Watch the Edpuzzle and answer the questions.

   9. Time-Line: Greek Rulers Look at the time-line and answer the following questions.

    a. In what years did Alexander the Great rule?

    b. When was Cleopatra III in power?

10. Democracy in Greece. 

    a. What is a Monarchy?

    b. What is an Oligarchy?

    c. What is a Tyranny?

    d. What is a Democracy? 

11. Watch the Edpuzzle and answer the questions. 

12. Explain, in your own words, how a limited democracy develop in Athens?

13. Watch the movie and answer the following questions.

    a. How were citizens "elected" in Athens? 

    b. What is a Ecclesia? 

    d. What did citizens do at the Ecclesia?

    e. What is a Boule?

    f. What positions were filled by elections? Why?   

    g. What type of democracy does the USA have?

14. Organize the forms of Greek Government in the order they occurred in history using the flow map below. 

15. Watch the movie and answer the following questions? 

    a. What is philosophy?

    b. What is Philos and Mythos?

    c. What are some of the BIG questions in philosophy?

    d. What is metaphysics?

    e. What is Epistemology?

    f. What is value theory? What are the two main branches?

    g. Logic is the philosophers ____  ____.

Extra's

 Interactive: Match-Up