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• Hippieas 
• life was then dangerous 
• clithenites 
• hippias was trapped 
• 510 B.C 
• Greeks society was changing
•   776 B.C two years before he was born
• Competition/ games for the wealth
• Olympians were hero
• Mythical heroes are where its from
• Rich people competing against each other
• get power however and whenever you can
• marathon 26 miles from Athens
• city without a standing army
• Hoplite, closest thing to a professional army
• Themistocles 
• trirme 
• xerxes
• Aristocrat- member of the ruling class; has wealth & power
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• Athens - Town built around the acropolis
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• Acropolis - big outcropping of rock where Athens sits.
• good advantage because you can see your enemies approaching
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• Cleisthenes - set Greece up on a path to empire
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• Arête- everything you do, you do it to the best of your ability
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• The Iliad and the  odyssey - Bards (storytellers) - were told in Cleisthenes Athens as a child to make him believe that he would become who he was
• Homer wrote the Illiad and the Odyssey
• Tyrant - (ruler) ordinary man Pisistratus was Cleisthenes' brother in law 
• Turned to common Athenians for support
• He reduced taxes, they were able to keep more of the money they made
• He started treating regular people really well
• Greek's created the vase - first artistic deal;
• Artisans had no special or distinct respect
• Life expectancy @ birth was less than 15 years
• Regular Athenian citizens had no say in anything
• Each city state was extremely independent and had it's own culture
• The Corinthians dominated Greek trade
• Spartans dominated in military instincts;
• Children were brought up from a young age in camps to train to be a strong military man
• Darius's son
• spring in 480 B.C news came out
• the Greeks went to see oracle at Delphi 
• delian league 
• Isagarus was an Athenian aristocrat, who grew up thinking that power WAS his right
• Old friend of Spartans, and they immediately backed up his bit for power and betray his city
• They ruled from the acropolis - top part of their city
• Cleisthenes, - feeling betrayed started a revolution
• After three days of fighting, Isagarus was forced to surrender
• This was a revolution of the common people.
• 508 BC - for the first time the people of Athens had changed the government
• Agora-In the shadow of the acropolis, the citizens of Athens came to discuss the decisions they will make for the state;
• The beginning of a democracy, a congress, etc.
• Met and voted every 9 days to vote on things; black pebble for no; white pebble for yes
• Athenian democracy - they ARE the government
• Regular people can be heroes
• Worlds first democracy tested in war with Persia;
• 490 BC - 18 years after the first start of democracy
• Phidippides - ran the first marathon for the reason of saving his country;
• Desperate mission was to run for help from Marathon to Sparta
• Ran 140 miles in just 2 days
• Athenians slaughtered over 6,000 Persians in 1 day
• Themistocles - Athenian general who had fought on the line at the Persian war
• He didn't come from aristocrats
• Learned skills of leadership at the Agora
• One of the worlds greatest leaders - the savior of his city