From 3/11 revised on 3/16
Today in class we are watching a movie about the Greeks. Here is what I learned
Today in class we are watching a movie about the Greeks. Here is what I learned
- They changed the world
- 508 B.C: people turned on their rulers
- Athens: people turned on their rulers, they are demanding freedom
- Cleisthenes: an a Athenian noble; an aristocrat
- Cleisthenes was born to be a ruler
- He saw that they should have freedom
- He set them on the path to empire
- He was born in 570 B.C. and lived in Athens
- Athens was not big it was very small
- Seemed impossible that Greece would rule an empire
- Town was built around an Acropolis
- Life was tough
- They lived under the rule of aristocrats
- They had no part or share in anything
- Greece didn't look like a place to grow a civilizations
- Divided into nations called city-states
- Athens wasn't the most powerful
- One city-state had military power
- Sparta was raised to be soldiers at birth
- They were raised in field, separated by their family, started at age 6-7
- Cloaks died red to symbolize blood
- Sparta conquered everything around them
- One thing that inspired Greeks is their stories
- 2 most famous storied are still preserved: Iliad and The Odyssey
- Poems called epics Images of heros are all over Greek art
- Cleisthenes was raised to become a real life hero and to be like the heros in the stories
- To seize control over a country- Tyrant
- Pisistratus rode into town with a woman next to him who said she was a Greek goddess
- Turned to Athenians for help to be ruler
- Pisistratus was Cleisthenes brother-in-law
- Pisistratus reduced taxes and introduced loans to allow people to build up their farms
- Because of this move their were more vines and olives
- They produced the best olives in the Greek world Eastern Medertirain was greatest market place in the ancient world
- Everyone was willing to trade for Athenian oil; wealth and prosperity was on the rise
- Greatest art: the vase
- Inside of the pot was more important than the pot itself
- Today it is beautiful, but back then it was barely thought of
- Pisistratus died 527 B.C. and buried in the Athenian graveyard
- His son, Hippias, took over
- Hippias ruled as his father at first, but then he changed
- Hippias' brother was murdered
- He executed the murdered and tortured one of their wives
- He ordered numerous executions in revenge for his brother
- Cleisthenes wanted to over throw Hippias
- Hippias was captured and banished from Athens forever
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