Athens

Athens was named after the Greek Goddess Athena. In Greek mythology, she and Poseidon competed for the city. Zeus challenged them to create something that would be the most helpful to the people of the city. Poseidon created horse. Athena created the olive tree. Since the tree created both fruit and wood, she won.

After the mid 5th Century BCE, any male citizen could vote in the assembly. Before that a property qualification applied, which excluded over a third of the male adult population.

Ancient Athens relied heavily on the importation and exportation of goods, as they did not have many natural crops they could harvest. The mountainous area was poor for most edible crops, but Athens had an enormous exportation of olives. Pericles himself started this in order to increase the revenue of the nation. By requiring the sale of olives by those who made it, Athens' exports rose enormously through the sale of olives for eating and its oil.

Being male, of at least a certain age, having both parents born in the city and having a minimum of wealth were all standards applied at different times. Additionally, a noncitizen could also be enfranchised by an election to do so, for example as happened to the slaves who rowed at Arginusae.

Athens had participated in the Army, but that could possibly be only Hobbie of ANCIENT Athens.

In Athens the citizens met in fortnightly assembly and made decisions which the Council implemented between meetings. In the Us, the citizens elect congressmen, who meet in Washington, and follow partly lines which do not necessarily reflect the wishes of the citizens who elected them.

The Greek world was comprised of hundreds of independent city-states each with its own government and system of government. These systems changed in each city over time.

Different systems allowed a limited number of citizens to vote according to property qualification. Others allowed all citizens to vote regardless.

The words oligarchy (rule by the few) and democracy (people power) are relevant.

no. the Athenian women did not participate in public life or own property. They took their status from their husbands and ere only allowed to accompany them publicly to the theater or religious festivals.

not sure who their friends were but they HATED Sparta i know that

Athenian democracy developed in the Greek city-state of Athens, comprising the central city-state of Athens and the surrounding territory of Attica, around 500 BC. Athens was one of the very first known democracies (although anthropological research suggests that democratic forms were likely common in stateless societies long before the rise of Athens). Other Greek cities set up democracies, most but not all following an Athenian model, but none were as powerful or as stable (or as well-documented) as that of Athens. It remains a unique and intriguing experiment in direct democracy where the people do not elect representatives to vote on their behalf but vote on legislation and executive bills in their own right. Participation was by no means open, but the in-group of participants was constituted with no reference to economic class and they participated on a scale that was truly phenomenal. The public opinion of voters was remarkably influenced by the political satire performed by the comic poets at the theaters.

The Athens focus of society was much unlike the Spartans although they were only two days apart.Ha Ha.The boys in Athen societys went to school and learned to read,write,do arithmetic,play sports,sing,and play the lyre.The Athens wanted to create well rounded Athens with good minds.At 18 they finished school and became citizens.Girls on the other hand stayed home learning how to do spinning, weaving, and other house hold duties from their mothers.only in SOME RICH families did girls learn to read,write and play the lyre. They were a democracy.Farmers many times had to borrow $ from nobles, but if things went wrong and they didn't pay back their loan in time,many had to sell themselves into slavery to pay back their debt.

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Athenian democracy was not at all the same concept as modern democracy, so therefore there was no democratically elected ruler, but rather a council of all those eligible who made decisions on anything and everything.

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In Ancient Athens, they did not allow women and slaves to vote. But in the U.S, all the citizens (over 18 of course) have the right to vote. the democracy that we are provided in the USA is what's called representative Democracy. in Athens it was much less representative and considerably more hands-on... sort of "hey, let's just vote on that law" kinda thing.

Built over 2000 years ago, Athens' Acropolis sits above the city on its highest peak, and is one of the most well-known landmarks in the world. Its classical Greek architecture has become a symbol of the city and of the glories of ancient Greece. The Acropolis holds several temples, of which the most important is the Parthenon, dedicated to the goddess Athena, who was the patron goddess of ancient Athens. The Parthenon is the largest Doric temple ever built in Greece.

Firstly a king; the kings were later replaced by an Aristocratic Council of the Areopagus; then tyrants were installed to be more representative of the people at large; the tyrants were replaced by democratic forms of government where the ordinary people determined laws in assembly; then when this failed there was a reversion to various less democratic forms of government led by the aristocracy.

It established a system of government where all citizens met in assembly and voted on issues put forward by the council. The word democracy is made up of the Greek words demos = people, kratos = power, People Power.

Athens is named after it's patron goddess Pallas Athene, or Athena. Athena won the rights to being patron of the city when she produced the olive tree, beating the salt water spring that Poseidon (her competition who was also vying for patron) created. Thus, the city was named in her honor. That is also why the Parthenon (a temple dedicated to her) is located in the agora of Athens.

To be an alien, or unable to prove to your tribal assembly at the age of 18 that you are descended within that tribe.

It is what they call a city state

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Today Athens is a city, in ancient era Athens was a city-state.

The best way to begin comparing Athens and Sparta is to know as much as possible about the history and culture of each -- for starters look both up on Wikipedia and go to the included links. An excellent way to learn more -- a good book that is both fun to read and very informative on the differences between the two cultures -- is commonly called "Plutarch's Lives" though it is really "Parallel Lives" by an early Greek historian named Plutarch (46 A.D. to 120 A.D.). One of his pair of "parallel lives" concerned the founding "lawgivers" of Sparta (Lycurgus) and Athens (Solon).

It is worth noting as you begin to study the similarities and differences between the two cultures that most of the earliest writing on the subject is by Athenians, as Athens was by far the more literate and cosmopolitan of the two societies.

It is important to note that the two societies were both Greek city states and had a great deal in common, including a common "larger" culture that included a shared set of historical and mythical beliefs, religious and ethical beliefs, etc. While Sparta is usually considered the more "warlike" society, both city states were usually in a state of constant war with one or more of their neighbors or enemies farther afield -- this was not just an accident of the political climate, as active participation in war was considered the defining aspect of manhood in both societies. In other words if there had been no wars arising out of natural conflict over territory and resources, they would have had to start one... and often did.

Likewise, though Plutarch, among others, looks askance at Spartans for their supposedly brutal treatment of their ethnically distinct serfs, the Helots, both societies were aristocratic slaveholding societies -- the "citizens" we know and learn about in general constituted the upper classes. The democracy in Athens was just for citizens and they did not constitute a majority of the population. While Sparta is not considered a democracy, its small elite aristocracy were trained from birth in an ethos not unlike that of our modern military academies, so, while organized on authoritarian lines, the society counted on the active support and participation of its citizens and thus required much the same level of consensus and "consent of the governed" as would be found in a more traditional "democracy."

At times some cities of ancient Greece, mostly Athens had full democracy. At other times there were tyrants that ran the city. Only free adult men were citizens. Women and slaves had few rights. Notable democratic leaders were Solon in 508 BCE when there was a popular assembly. Another democratic leader was Pericles who introduced measures which brought Athens to become a radical democracy where the adult males met in assembly fortnightly and made all the decisions which a council of 500 implemented.

Some of the many inventions ancient Athenians created was plumbing, thermometer, maps (modified), internal heating , wrenches, mills.