Video Notes

• Athenian War
• Clisthenes
• We was born as a ruler
• The night of the Athenian war was a turning point for his life and all of Greece
• He set his fellow Greeks on the path to empire
• He was born around 508 BC
• Grew up knowing he was an aristocrat
• He was always inspired by the Greeks Stories
• Travelers would come in and tell him and fellow Greeks stories
• The Eliot and the Odyssey were the most popular
• Athens
• Athens soon became an empire of its own
• It didn’t seem like this being that it was a horrible down rules by aristocrats only worried about keeping there power
• Located in Greece
• Reading and writing was a rare skill
• Life expectancy was less than 15 yrs
• ATHENIAN LIFE WAS TOUGH
• Not a society of equal
• They lived under the rules of the aristocrats

• Sparta
• The only city state with a good military background
• Their lives were structured around discipline and war
• They were brought up to be a military man
• They were believed to be the soon ruler of Greece
• They always posed a threat to Greece 

• Pisistratus
• He became tyrant of Athens
• He went in with a tall lady with a helmet on and said that he should be their leader because he was waling with the goddess Athena
• They believed him and he became their leader
• Really, he just had a tall lady with a mask who was not actually a goddess