More notes from pages 134-139 in the textbook!

Today in class, Mr. Schick refreshed us on what we had to do for work and what we had already done. Some students in the class still have to read pages 146-149 in the textbook, which is section 5. I have already done section 3 and 4 which were pages 134-145 combined. The teacher gave the class time to work on these assignments. I will be catching up on copying the notes from pages 134-139 from my notebook into this blog post. Athenian Democracy- citizens: male: 18-year old's born of citizen parents. Leader chosen by lot. Juries varied in size. Laws voted on and proposed directly by assembly of all citizens. Democracy- citizens born in United States. Elected president. Juries composed of 12 jurors. The introduction of direct democracy, a form of government in which citizens rule directly and not through representatives, was an important legacy of Periclean Athens. After the defeat of the Persians, Athens helped organize the Delian League. Pericles also used money from the Delian League to beautify Athens. The Parthenon, a masterpiece of architectural design and craftsmanship, was not unique in style. Their values of harmony, order, balance, and proportion became the standard of what is called classical art. A tragedy was a serious drama about common themes such as love, hate war or betrayal. In contrast to Greek tragedies, a comedy contained scenes filled with slapstick situations and crude humor. When the Peloponnesian War- between the two city-states began, Athens had the stronger navy. The Greeks called such thinkers philosophers. Meaning "lovers of wisdom". One critic of the Sophists was Socrates. Unlike the Sophists, he believed that absolute standards did exist for truth and justice. A student of Socrates, Plato was in his late 20s when his teacher died. The philosopher Aristotle questioned the nature of the world and of human belief, thought, and knowledge. Those were all of the notes on pages 134-139 in the textbook, that is mostly all we did today.