A colony is a group of people who settle in a new place but keep ties to their homeland.

The definition of community is all the people living in an area or a group or groups of people who share common interests. An example of community is a group of Buddhists who meet and chant together.

The Four Governments of Ancient Greece. Aim: What were the different characteristics of ancient Greece’s four governments? Objective: Students will be able to compile all of the information they learned on the four governments (Monarchy, Oligarchy, Tyranny, Democracy).

In a direct democracy, unlike representative democracy, people participate directly in making government decisions.

Hoplites

legionaries

Aspi

helots

The Helots were slaves of the state, which assigned them to individual citizens to cultivate their lands. The Neodamodeis, however, had no civil rights; and indeed it was but seldom that a Helot ever became a Spartan citizen.

Slaves in Sparta worked on their lands and produced agricultural products for their masters. They lived in their home country and did not have to work at the homes of their masters. In times of an emergency, the slaves had to serve as light-armed troops.

In contrast with classical Greek poleis, the Macedonians generally possessed slaves.

Although Spartan women were not active in the military, they were educated and enjoyed more status and freedom than other Greek women. Because Spartan men were professional soldiers, all manual labor was done by a slave class, the Helots.

In the Iliad, slaves are mainly women taken as booty of war, while men were either ransomed or killed on the battlefield. In the Odyssey, the slaves also seem to be mostly women. These slaves were servants and sometimes concubines.

Robert Osborne, in Classical Greece 500 – 323 BC, states that it was Thracians, Anatolians (from Caria, Cappadocia, Phrygia, Lydia etc) and Syrians who were most numerous. There were also slaves from Scythia, Ilyria, Macedon and even (possibly) Iran.

The Parthenon was built primarily by men who knew how to work marble. Slaves and foreigners worked together with the Athenian citizens in the building of the Parthenon, doing the same jobs for the same pay.

In Greece, an estimated 89,000 people are modern-day slaves – about one in 125 of its 11 million population – according to the 2018 Global Slavery Index by the Walk Free Foundation.

Slaves in ancient Greece were treated based on the kind of job they did, and also on the personality of their owners. If the owner was kind, he treated them decently. They also had different levels of independence based on the class they belonged to.

Living Quarters Slaves usually lived on their master’s property, most often in communal structures that tended to be primitively constructed and furnished. Some domestic slaves might have been privileged to sleep in the master’s house, such as a wet-nurse, the children’s primary caregiver, or a female concubine.

Africans also served as slaves in ancient Greece (74.51. 2263), together with both Greeks and other non-Greek peoples who were enslaved during wartime and through piracy.

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Martin Bernal, whose three-volume work “Black Athena” ignited an academic debate by arguing that the African and Semitic lineage of Western civilization had been scrubbed from the record of ancient Greece by 18th- and 19th-century historians steeped in the racism of their times, died on June 9 in Cambridge, England.

Black Athena has been heavily criticised by academics. They often highlight the fact that there is no archaeological evidence for ancient Egyptian colonies in mainland Greece or the Aegean Islands.

The one, which he terms “the ancient. model,” was, he claims, the conventional view held by most Greeks in. the classical and Hellenistic eras; according to this model Greek culture. had arisen as a result of colonisation, around 1500 BC, by Egyptians. and Phoenicians who civilised the native inhabitants of (what was …

Athena, also spelled Athene, in Greek religion, the city protectress, goddess of war, handicraft, and practical reason, identified by the Romans with Minerva. She was essentially urban and civilized, the antithesis in many respects of Artemis, goddess of the outdoors.

Athena wiped the semen off using a tuft of wool, which she tossed into the dust, impregnating Gaia and causing her to give birth to Erichthonius. Athena adopted Erichthonius as her son and raised him.

Peitho