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• 508 B.C  Athens turned on their rulers.
• Clysthenes had been brought up since birth to be a ruler.  This night was a turning point for him.  He thought that the people should have freedom.
• born around 570 B.C.  He was an aristocrat.
• Athens was not big at all.
• acropolis!
• reading and writing was a rare skill and life expectancy was 15 years.  Life was tough
• Greece does not have unity because of the mountains.  It is divided into city states!
• each city state was very independent and had their own culture/
• Sparta was brought from birth to be soldiers.  
• they had conqered more than 4,00 square miles. 
• Ancient tales and myths were a big part of Greek history.
• To most famous tales are The Odyssey and Lilad.  Composed by Homer.
• Lilad is about the Trojan war.
• Odyssey was about Odeys.
• Stories were called epics.
• A tyrant is someone who takes control of the government.
• Pisistartus thought he saw Athena who but really it was just some girl from a neighboring village.  He told everyone that she told him to run Athens.
• he was a good leader, and began to transform the city.
• He cuts taxes and offers them loans.
• Olives were very important in their economy.  They started to trade across seas.
• The vase was also very important.  potter were very poor, but then they started to design them and make them pretty.  now they are worth millions!
• 527 B.C Pistritis died.  Hippieas, his son took over.
• at first he followed in his footsteps.  but then someone murdered his brother and he got bitter and mean.  He suspected everyone.
• Life had now become dangerous.  This is when Clithenes came in.  He was going to try to take over his title.
• He succeeded and banished him. Clithenes was called a hero! yayy! (:
• Asagaris takes over Hippieas and the people started to revolt. 508 B.C (back to beginning.)
• they wanted Clisthenes to rule!
• agora is a place carved out of rock.  it is wear they met for meetings.
• to vote on things, people used a black pebble for no and a white pebble for yes.
• in 490 B.C pheidippides liked to run.
• Persia was invading Greece ahh. so pheidippides ran to go get help.  he ran 140 miles in just 2 days.  to bad no one wanted to help.  Athens would have to fight alone.
• fortunately, the Greeks did win! :) yay.
• Themistocles 
• Tyremees were a scary looking, high tech boat that Themistocles created for war. They were very expensive!
• 483 B.C Athens discovered that they had a ton of silver.  they wanted to divide it for themselves but Themistocles wanted to buy it for ships.
• he told everyone tht they were going to use it for attacking city states instead of Persia.  They made and amazing naval force
• Xerses was the king of Persia and wanted to avenge is father and take over Athens.  
• in 480 B.C the Persian empire set out for Greece.  Athens got quite scared and they turned to the oracle of Delphi.  There fate was quite bad...
• Themistocles refuse to panic!  he went back to the oracle and she said the wooden wall will not fail. There was hope.  
• he decided to fight them at sea.
• Themistocles ordered evacuation of women and children and sent them to an island.  He is going to fight between the island and their homeland.  
• the Greeks won again! Xerses was quite upset.
• delian league was the Greeks pulling all their forces together kind of like the united nations.  Athens was the leader.
• Athens was living the good life.
• Themistocles was ostrosized because everyone thought he was to stuck up.
• PARICLES was the leader of Athens at the hight of Athens.  
• He made a parthonon for Athena.  one of the most ASTONISHING building ever.
• 20,000 tons of marble made in 15 years.
• He also made a 40 foot statue of Athena.
• Most famous is a wall in the temple.  it has carved Athenians in it.  (Frizz)
• Spasia was a companion to Paricles.  
• twice a year athenias would gather at the theater to watch a festival.
• The Greeks basically invented drama.
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