Download Notes on Movie

The Revolution
-508B.C.E
-devoloped the idea of freedom and a republic
-Cloisonné’s family was a wealthy and political strong dynasty, he grew up in privilages.
-Origin of fortune believed that his great grandfather did a great favor for Criseses a wealthy kind and
was rewarded gold dust were he then put the gold dust everywhere and the king being amused let him
take all the gold he could carry.
-used wealth to gain power
-was taught to be an aristocrat, which controlled everything that happened in his home town in Athens
-most houses were mud brick no sewage at first it was more hard word and labor, while women weaved
and cooked. There was no science and writing and reading was very rare life expectancy was 15 years.
-All political power was handled by the upper class, and the middle class had no say.
-Athens started to turn against itself, because the elite would hold power again the rest of the
population.
-Greece did not have geographic unity that usually made great empires. Had no open plains but mostly
mountains that separated city-state which would make it seem impossible for one ruler to rule these
separated lands.
-1000 city states that at first were never publically unified, had their own culture and way of life. Often
city-states always defended its independence.
-Argos, a city state that was around for many years.
-The one city-state that seemed ready to dominate all Greece was Sparta with its strong Military way of
life, being brought to be soldiers taught discipline and war. Central of Spartans men was his barracks,
and few possessions besides weapons.
-Spartans were brought up to put up with anything, were ruthless expansionist, reduced conquered
civilizations as slaves known as the Helots. Every year they would declare war on the Helots to keep self
identity and to practice killing.
-Cleisthenes was the start of setting Greece to become an empire.
-Because there was no writing people would remember thousands lines of poetry to pass it down, telling
it to people who would pay to listen.
-Two most famous stories these singers told was the Odyssey and the …
-more men you killed and women you took you were seen as more heroic. A lot of greek culture
showed heroes were great achievers like Achilles.
- In Athens a man took power by bringing a women and claiming that she was the Godess of Athens and
they let him take rule.
-Hidrisitus introduced loans and reduced taxes to get the support of the common people of Athens.
-Athens was ideally to export to all the Mediterranean, and they did so. This is how the Athenians
founded their wealth but trading.
-Athens first greatest artistic discovery was the vase and pottery. Painting on them and at one time
potters were one of the lowest workers in the social class.
-Athenian potters started to create a new style of painting, and they always tried to outdo other
potters.
-Hipiaus took over his father footsteps but soon he did not follow his fathers way and became a tyrant.
When his brother was murdered he exacuted the killers and even tortured one of their wives, and he
started to move towards madness. Sending many people to be exiled and becoming paranoid stipping
away the commoners freedom.
-Life for cliosnese had became dangerous because being an aristocrat he would be able to stop Hipaus
power away. But clisonese soon decided to take down the tyrant. He essembled a conspiracy to over
throw the tyrant and the captured and banished from Athens forever. The year was 510 B.C.
-Olympia every 4 years sports games would start in Greece. These Olympic games were founded in 776
B.C. and usually had been a excluisive games for the elite but during clisoneses time anyone would join
in the games.
-The competions had their skills acquired mostly for battle fields. Running, boxing,, wrestling, and
chariot wrestling. Their was no prize besides a reef of olives and fame in Greece.
-women were prohibited from entering the stadium or competing. But men saw the competition if won
would be the highlight of their lives.
-As soon as clisonese gained power conspiracies started to form against him. Pisistratus was an Athenian
aristocrat and believed power was his right, and turned outside of Athens to the Spartans for support in
hope to over throw clisonese, because he once shared his wife with a Spartan king making them loyal to
him. Spartan troops soon were sent to back up his betrayal of the city and to size the power and control
of Athens.
-The first target of this tyrant was the other aristocrats of Athens, especially Clistonese. Clistonese
would then have to leave his city because of a dictatorship.
-Athens like their heroes the ordinary people of Athens took their destiny in their own hands and rose
up in revolution. Spartan alies and Pisistratus isolated themselves from the rebellious Athenians but
after 3 days he was forced to surrender. 508 B.C. was Athens first step to their glory and empire. For the
first time people turned against their rulers and took power for themselves.
-After this the Athenians then went to clisonese and asked to return from exile and to build a
government for Athens. He then designed a revolutionary government solution but he had problems
deciding how to give the people a say in their future, but he soon came up with a meeting place where
Athenians would talk about their future of their state. Then came up with voting a black pebble for no
and a white pebble for yes, and came up with the first ever democracy.
-Athenians then would gather to discuss things like taxes, declaration of war, and even building of
roadways.
-the idea that anyone could be a hero became developed. The system of government would stat the
greatest civilizations.
-Would take myths and transfer them into theater, would make new sculpture with great passion, and
start to architect great and famous buildings.
-but soon a new threat developed, the Persian empire. The Persian Empire started to become worried
that Athens would purpose a threat.
Explain the key factors in the development of Athens
The development of philosophy, art, knowledge, and forms of freedom were the key factors in the
development of Athens.
The development of Athens becoming a powerful city-state was due to their tyrant rulers, the
introduction of freedoms, and the constant struggle for power between people and classes.