Ancient Greek Movie 2 (Crucible of Civilization)
- Thing in the front of boats they would uses to crash into other ships and sink them
- 508 B.C ordinary people turn on their leaders
- Cleisthenes wanted regular people to govern themselves
- Aristocrat , member of the ruling class
- Acropolis- the out cropping of rock where Athens was founded
- Built the town on it and around it
- Reading and writing was a rare skill
- Not that the people were slaves, they were just treated really badly, although they were free
- Couldn’t marry your way up, once you were in a class there was no changing it
- World driven by injustice
- Greece was divided into city-states
- Sparta
- Spartans brought up from birth to be soldiers
- Raised in field
- Life's built around war
- Lived a life with few possessions except weapons and clothes
- Conquered more than 4,000 square miles
- There food was horrible, that’s why they were willing to die because they hated that food
- No luxuries, no comfort
- They were the greatest army
- They were inspired by their stories
- Traveling men who were paid to recite there stories
- One man seizes control of government, called a tyrant
- Rise of pesitriites, see the more agriculture, more vines and olives
- Eastern Mediterranean, best market place
- Seemed like everyone had something to trade
- Athenians found their wealth to be on the rise
- The vase is Athens first artistic piece of history
- Not that important at the time
- Homer wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey
- Tyrant- someone who takes control
- Priestesses is Clisthenes brother in law
- Had the Olympic games
- The games were based of the powers of gods
- No real prize just, the fame you would receive
- A woman could now race against a potter or other men
- Largest gathering of Greeks in peace
- 40,000 Greeks would gather
- How could Athens escape from all the violence elsewhere?
- Athens is now in control by everyone, the common, ordinary people that once they were in control they turned to one man, Clisthenes
- Started a system of democracy
- Gather every nine days to bring up issues and topics that they needed to discuss to build their economy
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