Solon: Key words (Athenian Democracy)

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Zeugitai
The third economic class of men who produced more than 200 medimnoi per year
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Thetes
The lowest economic class of men who produced less than 200 medimnoi per year
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Thesmothetai
The six archons responsible for legal matters
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Polis
The Greek word often translated as 'city state', refers to a city and all the land it controlled as one political entity
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Polemarch
The archon in charge of the Athenian army
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Pentakosiomedimnoi
The top economic class of men who produced more than 500 medimnoi per year
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medimnos (medimnoi)
A unit of measure roughly equivalent to 55 litres
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Hippeis
The second economic class of men who produced more than 300 medimnoi per year
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Hektemoroi
Tenant farmers who had to pay their landlord's dues of the produce from the land they farmed
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Eupatridai
The landowning aristocrats of Attica in the 7th century
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Eponymous Archon
Archon responsible for a range of civil matters, and who gave their name to the year
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Council of Areopagus
The aristocratic council of all ex-archons
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Basileus
King Archon responsible for religious matters
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Archon
An Athenian magistrate
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Alcmaeonids
A powerful aristocratic clan in Athens which was exiled after the Cylon affair
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The lowest economic class of men who produced less than 200 medimnoi per year

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Thetes

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The six archons responsible for legal matters

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Card 4

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The Greek word often translated as 'city state', refers to a city and all the land it controlled as one political entity

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Card 5

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The archon in charge of the Athenian army

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