Pericles
Pericles.
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No, he was a leader that rebuilt Athens after the Persian wars.
Pericles was but a boy after the repelling of the Persian invasion in 479 BCE. His building programme in Athens after peace was made with Persia was financed by the anti-Persian league treasury which he shifted from the temple at Delos to Athens and pillaged for the benefit of Athens.
Pericles was a leader of Athens who was responsible for rebuilding Athens following the Persian Wars. He was also leader of Athens during the Peloponnesian War, but he died of the plague that ravaged the city.
Athens first rebuilt its defensive walls. The agora was its market place, and much lower priority.
It started in 508 BCE as a limited democracy for landowners, revrted to oligarchy during the Persian War, was reestablished as a full democracy by Ephialtes in 460 BCE, and after his assassination, became a radical democracy under the leadership of Pericles. After Athens' defeat in the Peloponnesian War in 404 BCE it reverted to a limited democracy.
Athens Greece was the birthplace of democracy.
Athens had a democracy; Sparta, an oligarchy.
Athens had a limited democracy.
The democracy in ancient Athens was a direct democracy. The democracy in the United States was a representative democracy.
Sparta because they did not have as much freedom as Athens.
Athens had a democracy