Athens

Aphrodite

Athena

Artemis

Demeter

Hera

Hestia

(its impossible to name all of the goddesses as there were hundreds of minor ones but this is what i have to offer)

I think what makes it so cool and unique is that its history has been recorded for more than 3,400 years. Another reason it is so great is bcuz it is so big. It was ranked 25th richest city in the world in 2008.

They were not but in education in athens wealthily boys went to school at age 7 or 6 learning about literature, art, reading, and athletic activities

They converted the 200 city-states they had led in the Delian League against the Persian Empire into an empire of their own, and lived high on the hog by pillaging their resources. Each year a fleet of 100 warships went around the cities collecting the tax they imposed, taking it by force where necessary.

he made it stronger byfightiing the enimies that got in his way and keeping the government under control

They did not have war flags. This was a later invention.

Yes, if they were useful and attractive. The historian Herodotus made his history by delivering it as a series of paid public readings.

Democracy developed in the ancient Greek city-state of Athens through the general will of the citizens and also the intentional effort of such dynamic individuals as Solon and Pericles, among others. It was both a direct- and a limited-democracy, with each full citizen having access to the functions and decision-making power of the society yet, at the same time, with only a small percentage of the overall population meriting the rights of full citizenship.

Pericles expanded the democracy by instituting payment for service in public office and jury duty. This allowed many who could not financially afford to take office in the government to participate. This extended not only in theory, but in reality, the governance of Athens to all its citizens.

Athens is the capital city of Greece

Cleisthenes the Athenian ruler after Solon.

Anaxagoras

the peoples homes were simple but the governments were stately

Cleisthenes

They were the centre of religious activity, housed the gods, and acted as a treasury for state funds.

the Athens lost the peloponnesian war because Sparta had a bigger army on land and the Athens had a bigger navy. The geograpy was a great disadvantage in the war for the Athens because they couldn't use their navy on land.

YES.

Solon was appointed to prevent a civil war between the aristocracy and the lower classes. He brought in some changes such as eliminating debt slavery, but was not charged with establishing democracy. That came nearly a century later introduced by Cleisthenes in 507 BCE.

Cleisthenes is generally attributed to be the creator of Democracy. He was an Athenian Archon (a noble) and was vying for power against a Spartan backed Athenian. In order to keep power from him, Cleisthenes appealed to the masses. Giving power to them. He organised Attica (the peninsula of Athens) into sections, called trittyes. The same number of Inland, Coastal and City 'constituencies'. Each year, by LOT (utterly random), 10 men from each 'tribe' (one tribe consisting of 10 trittyes) were selected to stand in the council, the 'Boule' (pronounced Boolay) of 500. These were ORDINARY men anyone over 18, registered in their trittyes coujld be a member for the year. For one tenth of the year, one of the tribes allotted men, were placed as 'pryterneis' on a sort of executive council, who were placed in a round building in the agora called the 'tholos'. Neither the Council nor the executive council decided on laws. This was done by show of hands on the pnyx, the hill overlooked by the acropolis. Here, 40 times a year, the Assembly, or ecclesia, would meet. The Council decided the agenda for the assembly, but that could be changed on the day. Any Athenian male over 18 could speak on whatever he pleased. If a law was put forward, the 6000 people would vote by raising their hands, the Council, overlooking, would estimate a yes or no from what they saw. Cleisthenes also introduced Ostracism, the exiling of people. If voted for at the assembly, part of the agora would be fenced off and people would throw in the names of people thy wanted exiled from Athens (only for a short period, and none of the property of the exilee would be confiscated). If there were 6000 different votes for the same name, that person was exiled.

They couldn't vote(Athens was the birthplace of democracy) I think in special situations they could own land. Spartan woman lovin their worked and excersised more. Other than that they were house wives

Yes, they devised the first every democratic governmental system.

Sparta & Athens were similar because they both were located in Greece but Athens introduced Democracy and Sparta were important because of its army. Also Both had same religion and spoke same language.

The Athenians are very much concerned with the Natural (Universal) Law and the essence of humanity. For them, one of the ways to seek this laws is to involve themselves in education, research, arguments, etc., simply because they value themselves as humans.

since athens had little farm land it relied on trade to meet its needs for food and other resources.