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Ancient Greece, According to the myth - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Drama
        
        Tragedy
        
        Comedy
      - Democracy
        
        Est. 507 BCE
      - The Greeks felt great pride after defeating the Persians from 479 BC to 431 BC. This was a proud time for the Athenians, a time of culture, arts, philosophy, architecture, paintings, plays and wealth
- - - - The League was formed in order to defeat the Persian Kingdoms by Philip II, the king of Macedonia. It was then inherited by Alexander the Great after the death of Philip II.
- - - - Famous palace - Knossos
        
        Near by lived the merchants and craftsmen
        
        Crafts = Jewellery and Ceramics
        
        People gathered to watch acrobats perform jumping tricks over bulls
        
        Had pillars known as Columns which gave shade to people who used to visit daily.
    - - Had theaters
      - Storage places to hold food
      - MAYBE, a labyrinth under the Knossos palace
    - - Found all over the place
    - - Discovered some kind of writing system, called it the Linear A
        
        Linear A is not yet deciphered
    - - Minos is the king of Crete and lives in Knossos
        
        Poseidon asks Minos to sacrifice a bull
        
        Minos doesn't but keeps it
        
        Poseidon gets mad and casts a spell on his wife, Pasiphae, that made her fall in love with the bull.
        
        She then gives birth to the bull's child
        
        The off spring is known to be a half bull and half man and is named the Minotaur
        
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    - - The Minoan Civilization is destroyed ; maybe of a natural disaster
  - - - Had many enemies
      - Heavily fortified, placed on a hill
      - Conquered Crete with other mainlands
- - - - Aristotle
        
        The idea of living lives of moderation based on reason. Made advances in the field of logic and other categories. Taught A the great.
      - He wrote a book called The Republic in which he explained his governmental ideas. He is known by many as the greatest philosopher of western civilization. He also created a school called the Academy and taught Aristotle.
    - - Socrates is in prison awaiting execution for impiety and corrupting the youth. His impiety was judged to be a matter of questioning and possibly disbelieving the traditional gods, and his corrupting the youth was a matter of his teaching them to do the same
- - - - city's chief magistrate in the early years of the 6th century BC (594-3 BC).
      - One of the Seven Wise Men
      - Disabled the loan system
      - Poet and politician in Athens
      - Solved the problem of hunger by banning exportation of crops
      - Allowed free men to vote only if they joined the military and only free man can vote
      - In conclusion : His democracy was more like Oligarchy or ruled by a few
      - Decides no Athenian citizen is allowed to be enslaved
      - All the slaves enslaved through the loan system are to be released
      - Divides the people into four groups and the richest are to pay a higher tax to the army
      - Only the richest people can be appointed to be Archons or the ones with the powerful positions
    - - Came almost 80 years after Solan
      - He allowed free men even with no land foreigners to vote
      - Voting took place at least 40/year
      - The make up of the government consisted of 500 men council from all groups.
        
        Future-ly known as people rule or the parliament
      - Women and slaves were still not allowed to vote