Athens

Athens was stripped of its empire and became a second rate power.

Sparta became temporarily dominant until defeated and displaced by Thebes.

Fighting between Greek city-states continued on.

Persia reasserted control of the Greek cities of Asia Minor.

The weakened Greek city-states were unable to resist the rise of Macedonia.

Sparta only focused on strength reading writing if this had nothing to due with a good military they wouldn`t be there. Athens though was about the Arts so building writing Darma and such was more there focus

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Do you mean present-day, or classical Athens?

Presently, Athens is an orthodox Christian place.

In the classical Athens, they believed in the Greek pantheon, with Pallas Athene being the most important to them.

They ruled themselves by having a government that voted

People became slaves in many ways. some people became slaves when captured in battle. some were the children of slaves. some were Greek infants, abandoned on a hill or at the gates of town, left to die, or to be rescued by someone passing by. some children were sold into slavery by poor families, and some children were kidnapper.

There are lots of different possibilities:

1. East of Corinth

2. Northeast of Sparta

3. Northeast of Olympia

4. Southeast of Ionia

5. Southwest of Marathon

These are just a few but there lots more.

They wore linens in the summer and wool in the winter.

Athenians wore light, loose clothes, as the weather was hot for most of the year. Long pieces of colorful fabric were used to make the clothes. The main item of clothing for men was a tunic, called a chiton, These were big squares of cloth, held in place by pins at the shoulders and a belt round the waist. They were made from wool in the winter, or linen in the summer. Women also wore clothing which was made from big square piece of linen or wool. They used pins in various places to hold it together. Unlike the men's, the dresses always went down to the ankles. The ancient Athenians could buy cloth and clothes in the agora. Wealthy people had tunics made of colored cloth. The tunics of the poor were plain. In cold weather, cloaks were worn. Most people went barefoot. If they needed shoes, they put on leather sandals or boots. Hair was curled, arranged in interesting and carefully designed styles, and held in place with scented waxes and lotions. Women kept their hair long, in braids, arranged on top of their head, or wore their hair in ponytails. Headbands, made of ribbon or metal, were very popular.

only people who were over the age of 30 and were citizens. to be a citizen you had to be a man who was born in Athens, and hadn't convicted a crime.

An adventurous state, prepared to take risks, willing to engage in warfare and subjugate other cities, anxious to use the resources of other cities in its empire to use on its own well-being, and ruthless in dealing with other cities. Its people were brave, industrious, ruthless. Its women were treated little better than slaves, and in addition it had a slave population of about a third of its total inhabitants.

Unlike many other early social/governmental systems, wealth was not required to be a citizen of Athens.

It not only enabled it to dominate the eastern Mediterranean Sea and see off the Persian threat, but it was also necessary to enforce collection of the annual war fund contributions of the 200 city-states after the Persian threat receded. The casualty inscriptions of the Athenian tribes show large annual death tolls from the many fights to force the Greek cities to pay up. It was this money which supported Athenian naval power and the aggrandisement of the city and its culture and lifestyle.

He had a list of things to do and just did them his own way.

Well, one not-so-nice things about Athens was that the women were barely considered better than the slaves, and were not taught to read of write or were in any way educated.

Athens did, however, invent the democracy and some of the most famous philosophers came from there.

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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