It Pericles: "Ours is a democracy because power is in the hands not of a minority, but of the whole people
Thucydides: "In some other respects the Athenians were not the old popular rulers they had been at first, and
was easy for them to reduce (defeat] any that tried to leave the confederacy."
(c) Pericles says that Athens a democracy. What does he mean by democracy?
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(d) Do you think Thucydides would see Athens's role in the Delian League as democratic? Why or why
not?
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(Score for Question 3: ___ of 8 points)
3. You have just been challenged with the question "Was Alexander great or not?" Your position is that
Alexander was great, but you will have to persuade everyone else. Explain what made Alexander the Great
so great and how he spread Greek culture and brought ideas from other cultures to Greece
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(Score for Question 4: ___ of 8 points)
4. In a short essay, describe what is meant by "classical" and why Greece is an example of a classical
civilization
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