Jillian Kurzmann's blog 2/13/18

Jillian Kurzmann
2/13/18
Honors Western Civilization

Today in class, we watched a movie. We also will be having a test on Friday.
  • Greeks destroyed other armies.
  • Their warships ruled the seas.
  • Thermacles, Pericles, and Socrates.
  • Pandemonium ruled Athens.
  • People turned on rulers.
  • Clystanese was brought up to be a ruler.
  • He saw that everyone should have freedom.
  • He set Greeks on path to empire.
  • Born around 570 B.C.
  • He was told he was an aristocrat from a very young age.
  • Aristocrats controlled everything.
  • It seemed impossible that Athens would rule an empire.
  • Built around acropolis.
  • Reading and writing were rare.
  • Life expectancy was 15 years.
  • Commoners lived under aristocratic rule.
  • Aristotle did not like it.
  • Athens wasn't that strong.
  • Greece doesn't have typical unity.
  • Greece had mainly mountain ranges.
  • Divided into city-states.
  • Argos stood for over 1,000 years.
  • Corinthians dominated trade.
  • Sparta was military power house.
  • Cruel lives.
  • All men were brought up as military men.
  • Food was awful.
  • Sparta was more than 4,000 square miles.
  • Seemed as threat to other city-states.
  • Cleisthenes would rule the empire.
  • His inspiration was the mythical stories.
  • Bards would visit Athens.
  • The main stories were the Iliad and the Odyssey.
  • Stories of power and glory.
  • Really into Heroes.
  • Cleisthenes was to pursue a life of greatness and glory.
  • A man and woman took over Athens.
  • Claimed that the woman was Athena.
  • The man was Cleisthenes's brother in law.
  • He undermined the aristocratic hierarchy.
  • He transformed the city.
  • More grapes and olives.
  • Olives are valuable.
  • Traded olives.
  • Mediterranean was the best marketplace.
  • Many metal were sold.
  • A lot of wealth and prosperity.
  • Created the vase.
  • Not valuable.
  • Potters were considered poor.
  • Many tyrants reigned before Cleisthenes.
  • They created the Olympics.
  • Greeks turned on rulers.
  • Citizens gathered in the acropolis.
  • Created democracy.
  • They used rocks to vote.
  • They voted on everything.
  • The government system transformed Athens.





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