March 11,2011

The Greeks Video

1. The town of Athens was built around a rock and it allowed them to hold off their enemies
2. Reading and writing was rare for the Athenians and their life expectancy was less than 15 years old
3. Greece has too many mountains to seem to be a great empire
4. Greece was divided into many city states
5. Athens, Argos, Corinth, and Sparta were all city states
6. The Spartans were raised to be soldiers, their live revolved around discipline and war
7. The Spartans wore red to conceal their blood or their neighbors
8. Cleisthinese, the ruler of Athens wanted his people to be free and successful
9. Stories were a big part of Greece and Athens
10. The Illiet and the Odyssey were huge stories back in ancient Greece and they are still preserved today
11. Athena was the goddess of Athens and Cleisthinese brother in law, Psistratus was a ruler of Athens also
12. Psistratus introduced free loans to people and slowly began to transform the city
13. Olives were very useful and well grown in Greece, they invented olive oil and spread it to other countries
14. The vase was the first great artistic legacy, but the potters were very low on the hierarchy
15. Psistratus died and his son Hippias then became king 
16. Hippias executed his brother's murderer and even tortured one of their wives to death
17. Hippias was a tyrant and this caused problems because Cleisthinese wanted to overthrow him
18. Olympia is where the Olympics were started, the Olympic games could be fought between two people of any class
19. In the ancient Olympics the wrestled, boxed, and rode chariots, the real honor was that the winner would be known throughout Greece
20. Isagoras sent a message to the Spartans to help him invade Athens
21. Isagoras climbed the Acropolis in Athens with a few people and they stayed up there for 4 days until he was forced to surrender 
22.  508 BC Athens defeated their invaders and they started to become more powerful
23. The marathon was invented when a messenger had to run and inform someone that the Persian Empire was going to attack
24. The Persian Empire stretched from India to Turkey
25. The Athenians eventually slaughtered alot of the Persians in just one day
26. Themistocles was an Athenian leader and had risen through democracy
27.  Themistocles used huge ships that were very fast and useful
28. The Athenians discovered silver in their territory
29. The money that the got from silver was either to build a fleet against Persia or Eggia(a city state)
30. Xerxes who ruled Persia built a huge army of about 2 million men marched towards Greece
31. Themistocles burnt the temples in Salamis
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