HUMA 1100 Chapter Notes -Anatolia, Medes, Helots
11 Apr 2014
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First story of east vs west (by heroditous) 3 most important forms: democracy, tyranny and oligarchy. Share a common idea: equality under the law. Opposite idea for monarchy: a king ruling. Spartans most physical force mostly all men, but train women as well primary job to be a professional army and be involved in politics. Helot (slaves of the spartans, did most of the labour) Asia minor, cyrus moved to the west now (asia minor) Cyrus absorbed medes in his empire practiced religious tolerance. 530-522 bce: son, cambyses, succeeds thus becomes mad despot. Darius i series capital, and creates different provinces. Darius expands into the west, attacks the scythian"s. Persians had a monarchy, opposite of the idea of the greek. 499-91: ionian greeks, athenians go to help the ionians, and then burned sardis. 490: darius invades greece, spartans don"t come to help the athenian greek forces. Darius" son, xerxes invades greece, battles of thermopylae, and fights as individual city states.
