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"Many English words have greek root words like the word 

telephone which means “far off” (tel) and “voice” (phone). 

Punctuation, paragraphing, and punctuation comes from the greek 

writing.Also, the Athenian Economy was based on trade to get the 

goods and resources from cities around them. For sports, the first 

Olympics were in 776 B.C.E to honor greek gods zeus. During the 

olympics an athlete will light the olympic flame. Pentathlon is the 

greek word for five contests it included footrace, discus throw, long 

jump, javelin throw and wrestling. The greeks made this event to 

test athletic skill." Jake says.

" WOW that was interesting, but let's go see what those two are 

fighting about." says Tess.

"My type of government is better!" says 

Austin.

"NO, this type is better!" says Leighton. 

"AAAAARRRRRGGGGG!" they both say.

“In 2000-800 BCE-most cities ruled with a 

monarchy or a king. All power is in the hands of 

one person(there are no queens), which was 

chosen by the people in the city.After leader dies, 

another was chosen by people.The kings made 

laws and acted as judges, conducted religious 

ceremonies, and led army to war." Ron says. 

"Also, this government used soldiers to punish law 

disobeyers. The king had counsels called 

Aristocrats(meaning “best”),the aristocrats were 

wealthy landowning men, near the end of this type 

of government the aristocrats overthrew the king 

and by 800 BCE there were almost no kings left.”

"Another government that was used was the 

Oligarchs! It all started in 800 BCE, most of the 

Oligarchs were rich land owning men or wealthy 

merchants. The Oligarchs had comfortable lives 

while the poor worked in fields. Oligarchs ignored 

most peoples requests and made bad laws, toward 

the end of this government soldiers and people 

overthrew oligarchy to create fairness.” 

"There is even another one called Tyranny. This 

one started shortly around   600 BCE. The Tyrants 

cannot claim a legal right to rule and when they die 

their son does not inherit their power. Tyrants took 

control by force(they were usually military 

leaders), they were fair to everybody, made good 

changes/laws, and lastly Tyrant was Hippias in 

Athens, so everybody disliked him so they switched 

to new government.” 

“Around 500 BCE, a new type of government called 

direct Democracy(every citizen can vote on every 

issue). They had an assembly or law making group 

that any free man could vote in and free men also 

ran cities day to day business. Many problems 

occurred in voting(people persuading others) which 

caused to change back to earlier forms of 

government.” 

"One last thing I forgot to tell you are about 

the different social classes in Greece. Sparta 

had the council members as the highest called 

Aristocratic Sparties. Then came the middle 

class called Perioeci who were farmers and 

artisans they paid taxes and served in the 

army, but had no political rights. The lowest 

class was helots they were considered a slave 

class. Lastly, with the women, they always had 

to be ready to fight and had to guard the 

men's property." Ron says. 

they could speak to the mens friends

"The social class for Athens was that you can't 

become a citizen till your 18 and it can only be 

a man. Any citizen could attend the meetings 

and they would discuss meeting and laws. Now 

for the women they couldn't attend meetings, 

vote, or own any property. Women would 

basically stay home and take care of the kids." 

Ron says. 

"Wow that seems harsh for women." Tess 

says. 

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