Human Geography Class

Sep.4.2014

In today's class we discussed about the words from last class bit more deeper. Agora, Arete, Polis, The year 508BC, Socrates and The death of Socrates are the topics we talked about in today's class. Let's begin with Agora. Agora is the central spot in ancient Greek city-states. This place is spiritual, political place for Ancient Greek people. They have done all the important things like elections here. Second Arete, description for Arete is the act of living life up to full potential. Therefore people find what they are good at and get a chance to develop that potential. Third word is The year 508 BC, This year is one of the most important year in history because in this year the common people rose up to have revolution against there leader. This uprising is special because this was first uprising in the whole human history. Fourth word is Socrates, He is one of the most famous philosophers in the history. To relate this to last word which is The death of Socrates, He was forced to suicide by drinking a poison. The reason he was forced to suicide was because Ancient Greek government said he was corrupting Greek people's rules and mind. Also being against the god. Well history says he could have escape while he was in prison before he died but he didn't wanted that and just drank poison. I think I've learned lots of interesting facts today. Thank you Mr.Schick