Role of Patriarchy

1. Role of Patriarchy Patriarchy started in Greece in agricultural societies where men worked in the field and the woman stayed home and cooked and took care of the family.

2. Men Women Generally excluded from public life Could not own property Expected to be a good wife ex. bear children (male), do housework, supervise slaves • Owned Property • Tasked with making key decisions • Handled financial affairs • Worked in the field Role of Patriarchy

3. Reasons for Decline • Conflict and Competition between city-states broke down a sense of community • Disunity to Unite • Peloponnesian War & Successors’ War • Alexander the Great- King of Macedonia

4. Social Structure • Greek society was mainly made up of free men and slaves • Slaves used as servants and laborers of the free men • Slaves usually lived closely with their owners and fewer were paid • As society developed free men were divided between Citizens and Metics

5. Social Structure Citizens Metics • Born with Athenian parents • Most powerful group • After service in the army they were expected to be government and officials • Born in foreign polis’s • Migrated to either trade or practice a craft • Had to pay taxes • Sometimes had to serve in army • Couldn’t own houses or land • Not allowed to speak in courts

6. Success through trade and economic integration • Before Greeks arrived, Minoan Crete influence Greeks and the people of the mainland • Minoan Crete used bronze and were accustomed to traveling the sea • Greek when through a dark age from 1100-750 BCE • But in 850 B.C.E farming and Greece revived • As the economy recovered, iron replaced bronze in construction of weapons • Also adopted the Phoenician alphabet to give themselves a writing system

8. Development of Colonies and Economy • Between 750 B.C.E and 550 B.C.E large number of Greeks left homeland and settled in distant lands • Colonization led to increase in trade and industry • Greeks on mainland sent pottery, wine and olive oil to colonies • Received grain and metals from West and fish, timber, wheat, metals, and slaves from the black sea area

9. Administration • City States as a political unit • Very patriotic (Hellenes) • The Greeks didn’t have a real centralized bureaucracy. • Mainly due to the lack of utility

10. The Athenian Empire was composed of 172 tribute-paying states and was totally controlling the Aegean. The armies were not centralized, they were special to the individual city states. The Spartans are known to be hardcore and brutal. Military

11. Labor systems/ Greek Empire • To get into slavery you could have been.. • Born into it • Could have been taken prisoner when one of the battles happened. • Could have been abandoned as a baby by the parents. • If the family needed money, they could sell there kid into the slavery (Usually the daughter) .

12. Labor systems/ Greek Empire • Slavery was the way of the labor for the Greek empire. • There were many types of slaves; you had the domestic slaves, agricultural slaves, and artisans and workers. • They worked not only as domestic servants, but as factory workers, shopkeepers, mineworkers (misery and danger), farm workers and as ship's crewmembers (misery and danger). • These slaves were found everywhere at this time period, they were not hard to come upon

13. The living Condition of slaves • The slaves in this time period in the Greek-city states were treated relatively well and they had laws to protect them against abusing owners. But in saying that they didn’t have any rights in the courts of law. Slaves could obtain their freedom by buying it, by being granted it in the owners will or could be rewarded it by doing and outstanding service.

14. Women Slaves • close relationships developed between female slaves and their mistresses • the fate of a Greek slave girl was determined by circumstance and more or less rested in the hands of her owners, who had the power to shape her existence

15. Pics