Unit 1 Exam Outlines

1. Plato & Aristotle Outline

A. Intro/Restate Question
B. Plato

1. Background/Academy
2. Republic
3. Ideas of Tyranny
4. Ideas of Rulers
5. Ideas of Government

C. Aristotle

1. Background
2. Politics
3. Ideas on Tyranny
4. Ideas of Government
5. Ideas of rulers and subjects
6. Ideas on science

D. Comparison of the two

E. Conclusion w/ summary

2. Greek & roman Society Outline

A. Greek

1. Intro
2. Athens
3. Sparta
4. Polis System
5. Pericles Influence

B. Rome

1. Intro
2. 1st monarchy-king Romulus
3. estruscans driven out - race publica (people's government)
4. Centuriate Assembly: 193 groups (centuries) -95 poor, 98 rich (poor always lost)
5. SPQR - Hierarchy - 2 consuls, praetor, aedile, senate, & Qaestors
6. 2 social classes; plebians and patricians
7. Conflict of Orders
8. Tribal Assembly - 36 tribes (both rich and poor together)
9. New social plan - Dignitas & Gloria = Auctoritas

C. Comparison

1. Citizenships
2. Government bodies
3. Offices
4. Political changes
5. Eventual outcomes (conclusion sentence/topic)

3. American Revolution Outline

A. French & Indian War

• start in 1754
• 7 years war
• colonies & england vs. france & native americans
• ended on February 10 1763 with the Treaty of Paris of 1763
• Britain in debt by 140 million pounds
• Proclamation of 1763
• Western boundary (Appalacian Mountains)
• west=Native Americans

B. Taxes

• Sugar Act / Revenue Act (1764 on molasses, silk, wine, etc.)
• Stamp Act (February 1765 on documents) - Great Britain repelled tax later

C. Boston Massacre / Townshend Acts

• all taxes repelled except on tea (1770)
• Boston Massacre (March 5 1770)
• 11 injured, 5 dead (Crispus Atticks)

D. Boston Tea Party / Coercive Acts

• Boston Tea Party (December 16 1773)
• dumped 10,000 pounds worth (90,000 lbs) of tea into Boston Harbor
• March 18 1774 (Intolerable Acts/Coercive Acts)
• British soldiers could be housed in any colonists' house

E. Paul Revere's Ride/Lexington/Concord

• 1 by land 2 by sea
• 1 dollar = 1/2 pound
• shot heard round the world (Lexington)
• April 19 1775
• Concord started beginning of Revo,lutionary War

F. Common Sense

• January 10, 1776 (first published) by Thomas Paine

• 500,000 copies first year

• anti-Britain ideas

G. Declaration of Independence

• written mostly by Thomas Jefferson from June 11 - June 28 1776
• July 4 1776
• individual rights
• helped spark French Revolution

H. Battles

• Fort Ticonderoga (May 10 1775)
• Bunker Hill (June 17 1775) colonists lost
• Trenton (December 26 1776 defeated British (1st victory)
• Valley forge (1777-1778) hard winter. much suffering training, many died
• Yorktown (May 20 1781) last battle of Revolution
• forced Brits to surrender with help of French ground and naval forces

I. Treaty of Paris / Aftermath

• Treaty of Paris of 1783
• marked end of war officially
• brought peace between Britain, France, Spain, America, & Netherlands
• Britain recovered, France didn't and had their own revolution
• U.S. Constitution
• legislative, judicial, executive
• September 17 1787
• amended 27 times
• first 10 amendments (Bill of Rights)

Plato & Aristotle Notes

Plato
Lived from 428 B.C. - 347 B.C.
He was a son and descendent of Kings
He was aristocratic (rich)
His mother married Pericles
He was well-educated
He was a student of Socrates
He was forced to watch the excecution of Socrates in 399 B.C.
He left Athens to travel
When he returned, he created the first university called "the Academy" in Athens
He wrote a lot of dialogues about what he believes
He came up with the idea of Atlantis
He came up with the idea of Hell
He thought that the state should contain 3 parts:

1. Desiring (Lower Class)
2. Spirited (Middle Class)
3. Rational (Upper Class)

People who were in the upper class were well-educated

Some in the upper class who took a position in government had to give up their land, money, etc.

Aristotle

Lived from 384 B.C. - 322 B.C.

He was one of the most famous philosophers and scientists of Athens

His father was a royal physician

He moved to Athens at 17 years old and enrolled at "the Academy"

He became a teacher at "the Academy"

His home was sacked by the Macedonians, so he was not able to go back home after Plato died and the school closed

He took off to Asia Minor and married one of the King's daughters

He moved to the Macedonian capital of Pella and became friendswith King Phillipe II

He became Alexander the Great's personal tutor

He created his own school called "Lyceum" which was a parapetetic school

Alexander the Great died n 323 B.C.

He spent his last year away from school in a family compound and died a year later

He thought of geocentricity which was later proven wrong

He thought of the elements

He thought that denser objects of the same material and size would fall faster than less dense objects, which was also proven wrong

He thought that every species produces its own type (no evolution)

Plato thought that the perfect ruler should be a lover of mankind, which probably started getting into his head when a past ruler ordered the excecution of Socrates.

Aristotle thought women shoudl have equal rights as men throughout each state, which is probably because the rights were so varied depending on who you were and where you lived.