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Athens
One of the Ancient Greek city states, Athens has become the Capitol of Greece. It was home to Plato and Aristotle as well as a center of cultural activity up to the modern day.
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Why is the period after the defeat of the Persians considered a golden age for Athens?
The period after the defeat of the Persians is considered a golden age for Athenians because that's finally the defeat against the "big guys." The Persians were known to win, everybody thought they would win, because they had the best everything. But, Athenians had great minds, and put their shields together and attacked together.
It legitimately was a definite victory.
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Who brought Sparta and Athens together as Allies?
When the perisians became too powerful Athens and Sparta knew they had to be stopped so they teamed up and took a victory off the perisians
What are the characteristics of ancient Athens?
Some major characteristics of Ancient Athens are that they teach citizens to read and write, sports, warfare, and the gods and goddesses such as Zeus, Hera, Apollo ect...
What accomplishments have people in Athens made to impact today's life?
They were remembered for making a democratic government.
The early greek city-state, consisting of a city or town and its surrounding territory.
Polis is described as city in Greek. Also known in Ancient Greek as city-state, it could also mean citizenship and body of citizens. You had to be born in to citizenship by naturalization otherwise you could be shut out of democracy. This being a new concept of the ancient world which demonstrates culture might be universal to the greeks.
What were the contributions of Thucydides?
Thucydides (460-400 BCE) wrote the history of the Peloponnesian War.
Which battle eliminated persain influence Athens and Greece?
The Battle of the Eurymedon (modern southern Turkey)c. 465 BCE
NO. Its Salamis Bay.
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Who were some of the great philosophers of Athens during its Golden Age?
socrates and Pluto and Aristotle
The government of Athens after coleus themes became?
Cleisthenes is referred to as the father of Athenian democracy. He reduced the power of the Athenian nobility and gave it to the people by creating an assembly for people to vote and discuss state politics.
What caused the decline of Greece's golden age?
The Greek city-stated indulged in incessant warfare amongst each other, squandering money and manpower in this. The cities were weakened both financially and numerically, and became an easy mark for the emerging Macedonian empire.
How are the positions of Rome and Athens similar?
The Ancient Romans basically copied all the Greeks' ideas about many things, including architecture, but improved them. For example, they took the Greeks' idea for a trading ship, used it, but changed the design slightly to make it better. They also invented cement, which let them build things much stronger than the Greeks could.
Which goddess protected Athens?
Athena is the Goddess that supposedly protects Athens. Athena and Poseidon fought over controll of the city. Each God had to give a present to the people whichever was the best would protect and 'rule' over Athens. Poseidon made a geyser of salt water. And Athena gave them an olive tree. Since the people could do nothing with salt water they chose Athena. Which in Greek mythology guards Athens.
The Athenian army and its Plataean allies were waiting in the hills around the Plain of Marathon, where the Persian cavalry could not get at them, for reinforcements from Sparta.
After ten days, they saw the Persian cavalry being loaded on ships. They seized the opportunity and ran down and defeated the inferior Persian infantry now unprotected by its cavalry.
Then they realised where the Persian cavalry was going - around to land at unprotacted athens, to gallop up to the city, where traitors would open the gates for them.
The Athenian infantry ran back the 26 miles to Athens and formed up in front of the city just as the Persian cavalry was disembarking. Frustrated, the Persian cavalry went home.
This run is today commemorated in Marathon runs by athletes. However today's spoilt runners don't first have to fight a battle, and carry with them armour and weapons, and run in sandals. And they have exotic diets, rather than living on a basic diet of bread. Who gets your vote for the real tough guys?
Why did members of the Delian league get mad at Athens?
Athens would go to war against city-states in the Delian League if they tried to leave the league. Also Athens forced members of the league to pay tribute to rebuild Athens after the Persian War.
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How did someone become a member of Athens' Council of 500?
every year 50 members of the 10tribes would be chosen by a lottery.
the aristocrats only used their power to better themselves, so tyrants began to take over the government. They could do this most of the time because the people supported them and beleived that they would make their lives better. Than a tyrant named Cleisthenes introduced the idea of the people holding the power in a society, and democracy was born.
Why was the plague that struck Athens so devastating?
The plague that ravaged Athens killed many of it's citizens that were needed to fight the war against Sparta but Athen's lost it's leading citizen Pericles and his wisdom/guidance that was essential to the pursuit of the war .
