Athens

delian league

The theme of this painting is about commutation and learning.

Tenements - rows of units on each side of narrow laneways.

In 429 B.C, a plague came to athens and killed pericles and the leadership fell to inferior men.

He is known as the father of democracy.

About 30%. You could just type in this question in Google, and you can just read what's there because that's where I found it.

Athenians had Athena as their patron god, due to her gift of the olive tree to Athens during a competition with Poseidon.

Athenians constructed the Parthenon in the Acropolis as her temple, and additionally as we now know, a place for storing very valuable items.

Athena's full name was Athena Parthenos. She was the goddess of wisdom & warfare.

After the defeat of the Persian invasion 480-479 BCE, Athens orgainsed an anti-Persian league amongst the Greek city states of the Aegean and Asia Minor. The states could contribute warships or money. Most took the easy way out and paid. These funds paid for the manning of the Athenian navy, which made Athens the dominant sea power, and also gave it the capacity to extract city cash contributions to pay for the navy. This amphibious power gave it the capability to threaten all city states located near the sea, which most were. The anti-Persian league therefore transitioned into an Athenian empire. The other factor was that Athens built the 'Long Walls' from the city to its port of Piraeos. This meant that they had secure access from the city to the port, and could both continue naval operations and also import food if the city was invested.

Land was at a premium and the soil was generally poor. The average family had a small plot of land to grow grains, vegetables and fruit. The common land provided grazing for the ploughing ox and also additional tree products.

The basic staple was grains, but with the mostly poor soil, coarser grains than wheat - 90 percent was barley - were prevalent.

The shortage of land meant meat was very expensive and eaten mostly as shared meals after sacrifices - the entrails were allocated to the Gods who allegedly preferred them - very cunning.

Fish was common. Garlic was the common flavouring.

It was known as the "school of greece" because it was a center for art, literature, and ideas.

Back then you had two major players in Greece, the Spartans and the Athenians.

Athens are known for their wisdom and is also where Plato's school of philosophy arose (Akademia, the first university?). This would make sense because Athena is the goddess of wisdom.

Athens , a sea power ,sought to exploit her neighbors commercially through the dominance of her navy to the detriment of Sparta , a land based power , and other city-states .

Technically Neither. after the last stand of the 300 Spartans at the battle of Thermopylae Greece was taken over by Macedon and for the first time in their long history the Greeks were united and (who you might have heard of) Alexander the Great took the throne and conquered all of Persia and northern Egypt. but to answer your question Athens for that was were Alexander ruled from.

Trick question. Y is not a letter of the Greek alphabet. That type of word starts with the letter I (IOTA), which does the job for words which now start with J or Y, as in Iesous (Greek) = Yeshua (Jewish) = Jesus (English).

The Greek letter which looks like a Y is UPSILON and has the equivalent sound of our HU, as in HYPNOS = sleep, as in hypnotise.

It demonstrated how to make money from allies - leading the anti-Persian league, and when the Persian threat abated, continuing to collect the league contributions to spend on itself.

It demonstrated the advantages and disadvantages of radical democracy - to put the people in charge, but then expose them to the wiles of opportunistic leaders who brought them into war, defeat and loss of empire.

It showed how to expend money on spreading state income amongst the people, but how this led to gross unsustainable overspending which bankrupted the state and brought it back to penury.

There are lessons there for modern states.

outstanding contributions in arts and sciences

In ancient times, Athens (and other Greek allies) secured one decisive victory over its traditional enemy, Persia, on a coastal plain called Marathon. Occurring in 490 B.C.E., this battle was won by the Greeks against a much larger force and ended a Persian invasion-threat.

the metics ,and the slaves could not be citizens of Athens because

dogs, cats, birds and with the new trends, fishes

athenian men have much more freedom and power than the woman. Woman are forbidden to learn to read and write. The only thing women were valued for was to have healthy children to grow up to be healthy fighters. athenian men have much more freedom and power than the woman. Woman are forbidden to learn to read and write. The only thing women were valued for was to have healthy children to grow up to be healthy fighters.

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.