Greece questions 1, 3, 4, and 5

A direct democracy is a form of government in which the people make decisions directly instead     of choosing representatives. 

Classical art was a period in Greece centered in Athens when people first began to be credited for their artwork. Pieces were filled with harmony, value, and proportion. They were made to look very idealistic (neural look on their face). 

A tragedy is a serious form of drama that is based off of human suffering, dealing with the downfall of a hero. The hero always had a fatal flaw that lead to their downfall, they also had hubris, excessive pride. Sophocles wrote a tragedy called Oedipus Rex which is considered to be a masterpiece of Greek drama and showed that you cannot escape your own fate.

A comedy is another type of drama performed that was meant to be humorous. It contained a lot of crude humor and made fun of rich/powerful people. Aristophanes wrote the comedy called Lysistrata where women stopped being with the men to get them to stop fighting in the war.

The Peloponnesian War was a war between Sparta and Athens that lasted 27 years and caused a lot of destruction. Sparta was known for their army and Athens was known for their navy. Sparta declared the war and eventually won.

A philosopher was someone who tried to make sense of the world, and was a lover of wisdom. They believed that the universe was governed by certain laws and ruled, but they would be able to understand it by looking at the world logically.

Socrates was an important philosopher in Ancient Greece who asked questions to seek a deeper understanding of the world.

Plato was another philosopher who studied under Socrates and founded the Platonist School of Thought and the Academy.

Aristotle was also a philosopher who went to the Academy and founded the Lyceum and the Peripatetic School of Philosophy.

Pericles took many steps to strengthen Athens democracy during his 30 year rein. He created a direct democracy which had previously not existed before. He also hired many paid public officials, which was a big step because before those people were not getting paid much, if they were at all.

Athens and Sparta both had unique battle strategies during the Peloponnesian War. Athens tried to keep battles out at sea because they had a much stronger navy than Army. Sparta was the other way around and tried to invade their land because they had a stronger Army. Ultimately, Sparta's strategy must've worked better because they came out victorious.

I think some Athenians found Socrates ideas so disturbing because they had never before heard these ideas. They were all very skeptical because this was a very knew concept to them and a lot of people didn't give it a chance. They had never questioned the world around them like Socrates encouraged them to do, because they always just accepted that that was how their life was and never asked deep questions.