Video Notes

• Cleistenes thought that ordinary people should have freedom
• Aristocrats controlled everything that happened in Cleistenes's home town
• Reading and writing was a rare skill for Athenians
• Life expectancy was less than 50 years
• Regular citizens had no part or share in anything
• Argos and Athens were important nations
• Spartans were always a threat to the rest of the greeks
• Taught young kids to fight from their earliest days
• There was a book full of fighting tales composed by Homer
• All determined to seek victory at all costs
• Believed that Gods came and claimed Athens, having rule and control over everyone
• The "goddess" was a regular girl from a neighboring village
• Athens produced one of the best oils in all greece
• Traded oils across the sea
• if you did pottery you were very respected
• Greece is in the middle of an extraordinary grouping of ancient civilizations
• eastern Mediterranean was the best market place in the world at the time
• Athenians discovered the nature of Tyranny
• when his brother died Hippius wanted revenge
• The society now had a say, it wasn't only the elite now
• Cleistenes had to leave the city because of the dictator
• athenians turned on cleistenes
• starting voting system, black pebble for yes, white one for no
• athenian assembly gathered every 9 days to discuss issues