Today, we had a good discussion about the importance of studying history, as a follow-up to the 30-minute essay you all did last Friday. I then handed out the course syllabus (see last post), to give you an indication of where we are headed this year.
In the second half of the class, we learned about different forms of government as they existed in ancient Greek times. There is democracy, direct democracy, tyrants, and oligarchy. Four groups of five to six were formed based on these different forms of government, and ideas were then generated as to why each separate form of government was advantageous versus all the others. I thought it was a very useful discussion with some practical implications for today's governance situation.
Finally, there is no homework for tonight, but for Wednesday you are expected to do #1, 2, 3, and 4 on page 141. I know that some people have already done this, but with the disorganization that was last week, hopefully we can get everybody on the same page now. I'm going to continue talking about Greece tomorrow, and then switch to section 3 and Rome for Wednesday and Thursday (and probably next week as well).
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