Chapter 3

1. Both positively and negatively-the roles of the empire in the history of the 2nd wave era...

-Despite their violence, exploitation and oppression, substantial periods of peace fostered, such as artistic development, commercial exchange and cultural mixing.

     2. Persian and Greek civilizations differed in their political organization and values....

-Persian Empire centered on an elaborate culture of kingship in which the monarch could be approached only through an elaborate ritual.

• absolute rule
• policy of respect for the empires, many non-Persian traditions 

 -Greek Empire

• varying degrees of popular participation in political life
• smaller than Persian Empire
• Small Penninsula divided by mountains and valleys
• city states..small settlements 
• citizenship..free people managing the state was different (voted)

    4. Semidemocratic governments emerged in some of the Greek city states....

• growing numbers of men were able to affors the armor and weapons that would allow them to serve in the armies of the city states
• dictators supported by power classes 
• athenian leader Solon broke the hold on power of a small group of aristocratic families in Athens..also abolished debt salary, increased access to public office to a wider group of men and allowed citizens to take part in assembly 

     5. Consequences for both sides of the encounter between the persian and the Greeks

•  Greek victory radicalized Athenian democracy (service of poor