CLAS 201 Lecture 6: Lecture 6 - Athens
10 Oct 2018
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Boats are built and sponsored by the state and other elite within athens. Tribute was a tax paid for security from the persians. Don"t want to fight with other greek city states. When you collect tribute you can bring it back to your city. Many scholars believe that the parthenon is a treasury and becomes the bank of the athenian empire. Athenians can get anything they want by sea. Athens can focus on cash crops like olive oil and wine. Increased specialization of water that allows them to make ceramics and send them to the rest of the. Because much of athens gets richer, the allies get richer as well so there is the benefit to imperial expansion. More and more people want to have athenian citizenship. Originally, if you had one athenian parent you could be a citizen. Citizens had to be a child of athenian mother and father.
