Ancient Greece Movie

Cleisthenes was brought up from birth to become a ruler. Cleisthenes knew that regular people should have the chance to have freedom and be able to govern themselves. Cleisthenes was born in 570 BCE. he was told his whole life that he was an aristocrat. Aristocrats were the leaders in Athens for a very long time. Around that time, life expectancy at birth was only 15 years. Life was extremely tough. The Greek writer, Aristotle thought the world was riddled with faults. Greece seemed like un unlikely and for civilization due to its geography. It does not have physical unity like the other great civilizations did. It was very mountainous which was not good for an ideal civilization, however, Greece defied the odds. Most other powerful civilizations were surrounded by many rivers and streams, while Greece was surrounded by mountain ranges. The Iliad and the Oddessy tell of mighty battles and extreme struggles with the heart being the heroes.

Other facts:

• Athenians achieved wealth and posterity from trading 
• Athens' first great artistic legacy was the vase
• Vases were not a big deal in Greece, it was more of what was the inside of the vase that mattered
• Vases were used for transporting oils and food
• Greeks developed a new style of art
• Greek vases were so good because the potters wanted to out do each other
• The vases showed the ordinary peoples talents
• Hippias was a tyrant 
• When Hippies's brother was killed, he became a very violent and extreme tyrant 
• He became DRACONIAN 😉😉
• The beginning of the olympics was in Greece
• They were taken place in Olympus 
• A nobleman could race against a potter or farmer
• As soon as Cleisthenes gained power he discovered that others were conspiring against him
• Isagoras was an athenian aristocrat who believed power was his right and he wanted to beat out Cleisthenes 
• Isagoras turned outside Athens for support in his campaign 
• He went to Sparta
• It is thought that Isagoras shared his wife with a Spartan king
• Isagoras wanted to turn Athens into a subject state to Sparta
• Over 700 houses were cast out of Athens including Cleisthenes and his families 
• Cleisthenes left the city under a dictatorship again
• Greek architecture greatly increased and in turn made democracy better
• Greeks voted by using white pebbles for yes and black pebbles for no
• Athenian democracy is much different from our democracy today
• Democracy represented the ordinary Greeks
• Ordinary greeks could be just as powerful as the rich in government 
• Started one of the greatest flowering of civilizations the world has ever seen.