Thursday, February 4, 2010

Athens: Inventions of Concepts and Democracy

Please view the following video, The Coming of Democracy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4lw7pOCGCs
Please answer the following questions on your blog:

Who wanted a better form of government?
Who was Cleisthenes?
What was the voting process?


Please view the following video, The Thinkers of Greece.
http://video.kidzui.com/videos/319144?related%5Bchannel%5D=Ancient%2BGreece
Please answer the following questions on your blog:

Please write 2 complete sentences for each person.

Euclid

Hypocrates

Archimedes

Thucydides


When you are finished answering the following questions, please wait quietly until everyone is done. We will then go outside and choose our own black and white rocks.


Thank you,

Ms. Picard

3 comments:

  1. The people of Athens rose up and took action into their own hands to make a new government and burring down the old leaders.

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  2. Cleisthenes was a man that was scheduled to be executed but the people of Athens took him out and asked him to make a from of government that would include the pore, the people that make a monist amount of money, and the rich rich people.

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  3. They would vote by putting a white rock in for yes, and a black rock in for no. Then they would dump all of they out and see how many yeses and nose their are.

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