Athens

Most lived in marginal poverty. The average farm could barely support a family, and this resulted in surplus populations being shipped off to establish new cities overseas, mainly in Asia Minor.

There was a period of relative prosperity from about 450 BCE when the Persian Empire agreed to peace and Athens turned the anti-Persian Delian League, which it led, into an empire of its own, enforcing continued payment into the war fund by those cities, but spending the money on itself, putting half its own population on the public payroll.

Even so, life was hard, and the loss of its empire after defeat in the Peloponnesian War, returned Athenians to supporting themselves.

The adult male citizens met fortnightly in assembly and decided on laws put before them by a council. Between meetings the council (of 600 - 50 from each tribe) implemented these decisions, and 50 were on duty 24/7 in rotation to handle routine activity and emergencies.

The law courts were comprised of juries of several hundred selected by lot. There were no judges or lawyers - the jurors decided verdicts and sentences.

The only similarities between Athens and Sparta was that they were both Greek. Otherwise, there is no correlation, they are synonyms and completely opposite. Sparta is awesome while Athens is extremely homosexual.

Euro it is because Greece is a member of European union

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---- ====== ====== Two important people during this time were Draco, who appointed a strict law code and from whom we derive the term 'draconian', and his successor and well admired Solon who mandated a new constitution in 594 BC. After Solon more reforms followed which freed up trade and commerce, making Athens very wealthy and granting it a large middle class, abolishing slavery as a punishment for debts, and a formation of 4 main classes to which the lowest and most common, the Thetes, were for the first time granted political rights allowing them to vote, though only upper class was allowed to hold political office.

I think it is all men born in Athensor maybe all men and women born in athens

The pecking order was:

large landowners,

small landowners,

tradesmen,

non-propertied workers,

resident aliens,

foreigners,

women,

slaves.

A degree of equality appeared when it switched to a democratic constitution, when male citizens could serve in the government and participate in the popular assembly.

Solon was appointed archon for a year to resolve a looming civil war between the aristocrats and common citizens.

The address of the Bookmobile-Athens Regional Library is: 2025 Baxter Street, Athens, 30606 6331

The limited arable land in river valleys separated by mountains ensured that separate city-states were developed. When burgeoning populations outstripped the productive capacity of the soil, the city-states shipped their surplus populations off to other coastal sites around the Mediterranean and Black Seas to seize land and establish new city-states, resulting in over 2,000 city states.

From the Trade and Shipping of crops and other items

the size of Athens is 32 meters. It is huge you should go there. Did you now that someone ran around Athens 5 times!

Persia provided a financial subsidy to Sparta which enabled it to double the pay of seamen and rowers, which Athens could not afford to match. This gave the Spartan alliance sea-parity with the Athenians. By careful planning they were able to catch the Athenian fleet beached with its crews dispersed feeding themselves at Aigospotamai, and captured it. Athens, without sea power and and penned up in the city, with no way of raising funds from its allies (empire) or procuring food, had to surrender.

They imagined that the male citizens meeting in fortnightly assembly to direct how the city-state was run would empower them and deliver good rulership and just administration. It worked for a few years until the smart ones worked out how to twist things to their own advantage, resulting in their getting into a 27-year war which they lost.

the awesome thing

Athes and Sparta were both very wealthy. People think it was because they had esay acsses to bronze and silver.

This was a form of direct democracy where the ten magistrates were chosen by lot. However they were each first elected by the tribal assemblies of the ten tribes of the citizen body, which limited the scope of the lot to stray too far. And the chief magistrate had little power of his own. The fortnightly meetings of the citizen Assembly made the decisions, the magistrates carried them out, and had religious and legal duties to perform.

the men would go to work ,go to meeting , and at night they would go out with their

friends and talk about politics . while the women stayed at home and worked by cleaning , cooking, and taking care of the family .

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Since the Athenian Navy still controlled the Aegean Sea trade route, Athenians got grain from trade.

Athens has four seasons just like every other place in the world.

It was pretty much to get married and have lots of little boys.

in the home they were very important however, they were responsible for the running of the oikos. they would have to order the slaves about, but look after them if they got ill, raise the children, make clothes for the family and slaves, fetch water, and work out how much food would need to be bought to keep the family fed throughout the winter months.

Men may have run the city, but the house was a womens kingdom.

Athens created and established one of the first democracies. People would meet monthly to discuss issues of the state. The government would not make any decisions without consulting the assembly.

To create good citizens and "perfect greeks".