Early Christianity

Today in class we researched some important terms for future classes. An agora is a gathering place and market. They are a place for spiritualism, sports, meeting and art. A polis is a political entity that is run by the people who live there. Nowadays, that is known as a democracy. Polis is also the origin the words politics, metropolitan and poll. 508 BCE was the first time in recorded history a body of people revolted against their leader. They started the first of many revolutions, for example: The American Revolution, The French Revolution, both Chinese revolutions, The Russian Revolution, and many more. We learned Socrates was a philosopher from Greece who taught young people his ways of thinking. We also learned how he died. He was on trial and was to either denounce his beliefs or be put to death. He chose to die. Some people refer to this as a "forced suicide.'