Western Civ 2/25 - notes and review day for thurs

Today we got through almost the rest of the slides of notes and discussed the Aristocrats of ancient Greece. It is interesting that the rich ones rise to the top, and even the smartest person could be poor and still have no way or getting there. We also went over the first part of the slides to show what may be on the test Thursday.

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