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• Socrates was interested only in the mind
• Revolution far to the east 
• they believe the bodies were gods
• knowledge of the heavens spreading
• first great scientist phellies 
• phellies first man to measure height of pyramid
• stood next to pyramid till shadow the same length of his height
• how to sail at night with the stars light
• Socrates was first urban physatic 
• life spent questioning the 
• could turn convention upside down
• loved the city
• typical Socrates was making him think of things logically
• aways arguing with people
• Socrates freedom of thought
•  THE UNEXAMINED LIVE IS NOT WORTH LIVING 
• Spartans invaded Athenian lands
• wall theory didn't work out
• convinced Athenians to go along with his place
• Pericles didn't know that worse was coming
• plague , a decease torn city apart
• spread like wild fire
• horrible symptoms 
• floating bodies 
• looked smelled terrible and there was terror 
• Spartans burning Athenian farm land
• killed over a third of Athens population
• Pericles died 
• showed one of his friends a charm a woman put on his neck
• after 6 months of illness he died
• Pericles plan only brought decease and death
• Became clear a linchpin of Athens
• anyone who can make people happy wants to rule
• as conflict goes on generals/naval leaders returned to Athens 
• Thrown in to prison
• all generals should be exsacuted for not saving him
• Socrates , stood his ground and said it was the wrong thing to do
• generals were condemed to death by drinking poisonous 
• Athens never had a political leader after Pericles who could think things through
• war between sparta lasta a decade 
• Athenian fleet kept city supplied
• nobody could defeat nobody
• Athens must prove there power
• year of 416 a daring proposal put 
• Athenians were going to help and set out
• wanted to destroy Spartans and become rulers of all Greece
• Athenians threw themselves further 
• soldiers testing equipment
• ships prepares vessels
• invasion set out for Cicily 
• 6 months later word came back 
• campain didnt go as quick as hoped needed reenforcment
• then they had heard no news at all
• 413 B.C a sailor arrived in the city
• needed a haircut
• told barber a tail of a horrible saluter
• story of an army 
• how food and water ran out
• attempted to escape 
• everyone tried to cross river 
• drank dirty water
• all left dead in the water
• over 50000 men killed or were prisoned
• Athens tyrants destroyed 
• motivation is self interested
• Athenians had engaged in a pointless campaign
• Military closed in
• Persians decided to inter vein with Spartans
• Spartans got help from Persians
• could finally polish off the Athens
• Athenians began to starve in the streets 
• turned to the goddess Athena 
• Pericles honored here with a temple before he died 
• goddess couldn't offer help now
• Athens , a population of plague and war , death and suffering
• in 404 B.C Athens gave up to lysander the spartan leader
• great wall was taken down 
• fleet was destroyed
• what remained of Athens was put to the torch with only 12 ships to remain
• no longer ruling the mediteranian
• could achieve great things but not all great things
• took one more thing of violence before they give themselves up to the Spartans 
• humiliated that there empire lost
• search for an enemy
• someone who questioned them
• searched for Socrates
• around him was followers
• Socrates was arrested 
• Socrates trial was held in Athens
• chosen by citizens around him
• Socrates shows no fear
• Socrates setting his life against Athenians
• found him guilty 
• he was still calm 
• taken from court to Athens prison 
• still can see where Socrates was held
• executed by drinking hemlock 
• extremely painful causing paralysis 
• turned to his friends like it was nothing at all
• wanted to wash before he died
• all of his friends broke down in tears but Socrates didn't
• he said to be brave
• as Socrates laid down to die his friends watches in silence
• now in depths of defeat found something new
• most important lesson Socrates left was the need to be critical 
• realized they went to far
• Athens was never again in great power
• instead became a city of study and discussion 
• were students learned to become a world of reasoning
• slowly ideas of greek thinkers became to spread across the world 
• in less then 200 years ancient greeks changed there world and carved an empior 
• science and philosophy , literature and art 
• the greeks tought us how to think
• there achievements still help our world.