Ch 8 Lesson 2: Greek Politics and Society

The blind poet, Homer, created his epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, about 2,500 years ago.

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These stories told the tale of the terrible 10-years Persian War and its many heroes.

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While the ancient Greeks thought of these stories to be true, few modern readers thought of them as real.

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Heinrich Schliemann was convinced that Troy had actually existed, so in 1871 he began an archaeological dig and soon found the city that everyone thought was imaginary was real after all.

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After the Trojan War, trade came to a standstill and poverty in Greece increased.

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Little is known about this period because there are few architectural remains and written language all but disappeared as people became isolated in separate villages.

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By 2004 A.D., Greece began to prosper again; town marketplaces, or agoras, became crowded.

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Greece was now made up of many independent communities composed of villages and surrounding farmland.

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Called a politic in Greek, a city-state was governed by groups of powerful landowners.

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Powerful slaves who paid for armor, horses, and the army, governed the city-states.

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