The Greeks, Crucible of Civilization

• Clystinse was brought up from birth to be a ruler, taught to be an aristocrat. 
• Plyceny was brought up to be a ruler, he set the Greeks on the path to Empire.
• Athen lays in the center of the peninsula, which we now call Greece. 
• reading and writing was a rare skill
• life expectancy was less than 15 years 
• aristocrats ruled Athens
• Aristotle wrote about Greece and how it is turned on its people.
• Greece does not have the physical unity for a really great civilization of the Ancient World.
• Greece was divided into City States
• Sparta was a City State
• Spartans were brought up from birth to be soldiers.
• Sparta conquered 4,000 sq. miles
• Sparta was a threat to all the other city states 
• 6th century Greek had a ruler(tyrant).
• Pysistrases, rode into Athens clamming he had a Goddess named Athena. 
• Pysistrases had to be the ruler of Athens because he had a Goddess. 
• Pysistrases cut taxes and transformed the city.
• Olive tress are a big part of Greece
• Olives were part of Greece economy.
• The vase was the first great artistic
• designs were based on Egyptians and serrian arts. 
• Hypias took over Pysistrases after he died.
• The Athena's soon discovered Tyrant. 
• Hypias put his brothers murderers to death and one of the wives. 
• Hypias became bitter and suspicious of everyone. 
• Pysistrases came to power for a cause, his son did not.
• Plystanese wanted to take power from Hypias.
• Plystanese banished Hypias from Athens forever.
• 776 B.C was when the Olympics were discovered. 
• first it could only be wealthy people, than it soon became anyone. 
• Asigrasas was another aristocrat. and he wanted power.
• he turned to outside Athens for support and won than had to surrender.
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