The ancient greeks video

  • were the beginning of western civilization 
  • greeks warships controlled the sea
  • Socrates the most famous philosopher in the world 
  • Cleisthenes in 508 bc saw that people should make their own laws and decisions 
  • Cleisthenes was born into one of the most famous and rich families in Greece 
  • Cleisthenes was taught to be an aristocrat 
  • They controlled everything that happened in Greece
  • You would be able to smell Athens as you approached it
  • Reading and writing was a rare skill for them
  • They were nasty and life was extremely tough
  • the upper class the aristocrats had all the say
  • The "normal" people did not have any say or share in anything
  • Greece was not the most obvious city to be great because of the geography they had
  • To the east of Greece was the Persian Empire
  • It was a landscape driven by mountains and was hard for one ruler to control the whole thing
  • Each polis sought to see their own independence
  • The corinthians dominated Greek trade
  • The Spartans were brought up to deal with anything 
  • The spartans were ruthless 
  • The spartans controlled more than 4,000 square miles 
  • The spartans every year declared war on the healots 
  • They practiced killing normally 
  • The rest of Greek were threats to Sparta according to them 
  • One thing that inspired Cleisthenes was their stories
  • People would tell the stories to anyone that would pay
  • They would memorize millions of lined because they could not read or write 
  • The two most famous stories were the Lliad and the Odyssey 
  • Cleisthenes was supposed to follow a life or greatness and glory and to become a real life hero 

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