Greek City States

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Greek City States
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Polis

• A polis is a Greek City-State
• Polis had an acropolis-a fortress
• Polis was surrounded by walls for protection
  against invasion
• Polis had an agora- a marketplace
• Each polis had own leaders and government

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Megara

• Had good schools
• Studied drama, poetry, public speaking, reading
  writing, math, flute and lyre.
• Loved money
• Went to high school
• Went to military school
• Have their own coinage

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Corinth

• Attended day school where memorized
• poetry, studied drama, public speaking,
• reading, writing, math and the flute
• Attended high school if parents could
• afford it
• Went to military school for 2 years
• Famous for bronze statues, pottery and painted
  vases
• Created own coinage and charged traders to
  convert their coins

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Athens

• Superbly educated in arts and
• sciences
• Attended day school where studied drama, public
  speaking, reading, writing, math, and how to play
  the flute.
• At age 18, attended military school for two
  additional years
• Famed for its literature, poetry, drama, theatre,
  schools, buildings, government, and intellectual
  superiority

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Sparta

• Endured unbelievable pain and
• hardship to become a superior Sparta
• soldier and citizen
• Taken away from family at age 7, lived a harsh
  and brutal life in the soldiers barracks.
• Beaten by older children who started fights to
  help make them tough and strong
• Often were whipped in front of groups of other
  Spartans, including there parents, but never
  cried out in pain
• Where given very little food, but encouraged to
  steal food, instead

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Argos

• educated in the arts and the sciences, and
  trained to be productive and capable in times of
  peace or war
• magnificent stone sculptures of athletes,
  rippling with muscle, are the envy of many a
  Greek city-state
• famous for having wonderful musicians and poets.
• Drama reached new heights in this polis. Plays
  are performed in open-air theatres, drawing
  crowds of 20,000 or more Argive citizens!