Class 2/13, Movie Thing

Notes:

• The monuments in Greece still record two important decades in all of history
• Greeks achieved all of their advancements in math, science, literature, philosophy, and art while being at war
• Their achievements changed the world 
• Athens 508 BCE- the ordinary people had turned on their ruler demanding freedom after centuries of oppression 
• Cleisthenes had been brought up to be a ruler and look down upon regular people 
• He saw that these ordinary people have the right to be free and govern themselves
• Cleisthenes was told he was an aristocrat since he was a child 
• Athens was turned against itself
• The aristocrats were split down the middle fighting one another 
• The regular people had no part or share in anything 
• Greece was divided into many city states
• Each fiercely independent to and loyal to themselves 
• Spartans lives were centered around war and fighting 
• Spartans were ruthless and expanded throughout the land 
• They were a threat to all other Greece cities
• Cleisthenes was inspired by Greek stories
• Heroes were painted all over Greece to inspire citizens of greatness
• Claimed that he had the blessing of a goddess to become tyrant 
• Greece is in the middle of a grouping ancient civilizations 
• Everyone had something to sell from their land
• Athenians selling olive oil began to increase their wealth 
• Potters were considered very low in society 
• Hippies took over Athens ruling with a fair hand to begin
• His brother was murdered and he executed the entire murders family 
• Cleisthenes found that others were conspiring against
• Isagoras was another aristocrat brought to believe power was his and knew he had to get help from the Spartans to get rid of Cleisthenes
• Other aristocrats were targeted too 
• The ordinary people of Athens took their destiny into their own hands 
• They rose up in revolution
• On the morning of the third day Isagoras was forced to surrender
• This was Athens first step empire and glory
• First time citizens had seized power from their rulers
• Cleisthenes was asked to build a government and come back after being exiled 
• He had to design a system that would work for a revolutionary situation
• He created a large spot to meet to and discuss their state
• Cleisthenes instituted the simple vote
• White stone, yes, black stone, no
• A system of government that would change the state and the world 
• Democracy led to a flourishing of culture