Athens

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Athens took greece over and slay the spartans for good in about 599B.C.E

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After the retreat of the Persians, a new stoa was built in Athens. It was the Painted Stoa and was erected at the north end of the Agora. This was to become the most famous of all the stoas.

The population was 400000

The Athenians were farmers, fishermen, traders, tradesmen and part-time soldiers. The Spartans controlled a large serf population who delivered half their produce to the Spartan citizens, who were therefore able to devote themselves to military training.

Athens led the western Greek cities against Persia in the later stage of the 50-year war. After Persia agreed to peace, Athens continued to enforce the annual collection of war funds from the 180 cities, and used the money for its own aggrandisment, putting half its citizens on the public payroll, building programmes, and the arts - a golden age paid for by other cities' gold.

Athens became a genuine democracy - the citizens in assembly made the decisions and the council carried them out. Compared to this, today's representative democracies elect politicians, who do what they want, rather than what the electors want.

Athens had a powerful navy.

Citizen soldiers, who were heavy infantry and called out for operations when required, and underwent monthly training activity; augmented by slave light infantry and archers.

A large war fleet manned by citizens and hired seamen.

Athens suffered a number of disasters: the plague, Syracuse, and the defeat of its fleet.

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The principal allies - those who provided warship to the Athenian-led Delian League - were Chios, Samos and Lesbos. The remaining 180-odd cities provided money and relied on the fleet-providers for protection from Persia.

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Athens is a very old city. I the time before the Roman Empire it was one of many states and each state would have one larger city and a few small town. That's that it was like for most of Europe around that time. Each state would have a leader who had inherited the leader position names for these leader are varied but it was the same job. Be it they where called a King a Governor a Clan Chief a Lord, etc...

In the days of the Roman Empire Athens was just one of many cities under Roman rule and so it would have been ruled by a Governor appointed by the Emperor of Rome at the time.

The dorian settlers

The ten-year exile in Athens is commonly referred to as the "ostracism" period. This practice involved the temporary banishment of a citizen, typically due to political rivalry, decided by a vote of the populace. A notable figure who experienced this was the statesman Themistocles, who was ostracized around 471 BCE. Ostracism was intended to prevent any individual from gaining too much power and to maintain political balance in the city-state.

do you believe people living in athens at the time realized they were living in a golden age

At times, they threw huge amounts of parties resulting in an abudence of waste on the streets. Other times they did not.

The Greeks decided to lure the Persian fleet into the closed waters between the island of Salamis and the mainland, where they had to break their battle formation, split to go on either side of the island of Psyttalia, and so were vulnerable to the flank attacks by the Greek fleet lying in wait.

They were also persuaded that the Greeks were going to try to flee through the back passage from the strait, and detached the large Egyptian part of their fleet to cover it, so reducing the numbers of their ships to parity with the Greeks.

They were also persuaded that the Athenian contingent might defect to them, and sat at oars outside the entrance all night, and so were exhausted by the morning of the battle.

In these ways, the odds were swung heavily in favour of the Greeks.

Well if you were a girl, then it would be a tough choice, because women weren't treated very well in Athens and couldn't participate in most things. But in Sparta you were expected to be strong and healthy and withstand harsh beating and fasting so you could become a strong warrior when you grow up. But if you were a boy, then definitely Athens, because they were pretty much living lives like normal happy people and lived in a normal environment.