Athens

Athenians valued education, clear thinking, and the arts. They were much more laid-back people compared to the Spartans.

leader of Athens during its Golden Age

There is no ideal age for marriage in Athens. As the time passes, more and more people choose to not get married but enjoy their lives together without legal binding. However; i think that most people in Athens get married at their late 20's and early 30's.

The nobles in the athenian government held the most power, though it was a pure democracy meaning every able man was allowed to have a say in the government

During the Athenian period of democracy, the center of power was really held in the role of "General", mainly because of the near constant state of war. Pericles was the most famous General of this period, having won that office 15 consecutive times.

The were sold as slaves to other cities to pay for the debt.

Pericles, after getting his conservative opponent Thucydides son of Melesias expelled in 444 BCE, manipulated affairs as 'First Citizen' to bring prosperity and power to Athens. Unfortunately his ego led him to lead Athens into a destructive war with the Peloponnesian League 13 years later, which Athens lost. During the war, the democracy was led by populists after Pericles' early death, and the democracy was replaced to bring government of the city under control.

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To live their lives productively, to serve in the navy and army when required, to vote in the political assembly, to serve on juries when called, to be self reliant, to honour the gods, and breed many children to replace themselves.

It passed on to us elements of politics, language, arts, building styles.

Athens is famous for the Olympics held there in 2004.

It is important for being the first democracy in the world (they invented the word some 2600 years ago), for creating the still in force artistic standards, for founding and hosting the Ancient Olympic Games, as well as the first modern ones (at the turn of the last century).

Pericles turned Athens into a radial democracy, that is the assembly of the people ruled. Pericles described himself as First Citizen.

People for most offices were selected by lot - a blind draw. So the quality varied greatly, this being overcome by having collegiate appointments, that is several people shared the same job, in the expectation/hope that at least some of them would have some brains; eg public monies collection was handled by a committee of 10, some sat and collected, some wrote receipts, some counted it, some carried it to the Parthenon for safe keeping, so there was a mix of small jobs.

An exception was the generals - no one wanted to be led in war by an incompetent rabbit, so each of the ten tribes nominated a man to be general who they could trust.

Pericles had to go before the Assembly meetings and argue his case where he thought something should be done. He argued persuasively most of the time, but he had periods where he was out of favour and things didn't go his way. It was during a difficult period when he pushed Athens into a destructive and unnecessary war.

Citizens aged 18 to 45 were liable for military service, and attended training sessions each month. They were called out for operations and had to assemble with army and three days rations. As Athens' empire grew they were posted as garrison forces around the Aegean Sea, or had to serve on the 100 warships which made an annual trip to collect the tribute which Athens imposed on the 180 cities of its empire - often by force. Males older or younger than the military age were called out for home defence in the absence of the army and navy. The resident aliens were also required to form a city-defence regiment of 10,000 as a price for the benefits of residing in the city.

They commanded the army and the navy. There were 10, one appointed from each tribe. As they were held to be more reliable than the political office-bearers, they were often given political tasks to implement by the assembly of the people when it made significant decisions.

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Aristotle founded the school known as the Lyceum around 335 BCE.

The Athenian economy boomed because Athens ripped off annual contributions from up to 200 other cities, collected by force if necessary. It collapsed when the Peloponnesian League defeated Athens and stripped it of its empire, and Athens collapsed into a second rate country.

The approximate longitude and latitude of Athens in Greece is 37 Degrees 58 Minutes N, 23 Degrees 42 Minutes E. Athens is the capital of Greece.

Most men in Athens became farmers, traders, skilled craftsmen and rowers in the fleet (and public servants from the Pricles era).They could also be called out for military service.

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The Golden Age.

Yes - if they behaved according to Athenian standards and had legitimate business to conduct and could support themselves.

Sparta because they did not have as much freedom as Athens.

A majority vote of the citizens would condemn the target to exile for ten years. It was a way of getting rid of your political opponents.

It was notably used by Pericles to get rid of his opponent Thucydides son of Melesias when Thucydides formed what is the first recorded political party and used their disciplined voting in the Assembly to stymie Pericles' attempts to get up his political fixes. Thucydides' exile left his party in disarray and left the door open for Pericles to be an over-influential leader of the Athenian democracy.

This had some good outcomes for Athens, but Pericles over-reached himself and manoeuvred the city into the disastrous 27-year Peloponnesian War which Athens lost.

Generally yes. The assembly though consisted of only citizens of Greece which by definition are native born free men. so it was all the views of the people but man ran the show

He believed in power. I think that is why he was part of the chief government in Athens around 525 B.C..