CLA160H1 Lecture 7: CLA160 Lecture 7 Notes.doc
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King darius i letter to gadatas tax exemption for the temple of apollo protects the greeks and their religion angered that gadatus" attempts to exact taxes from the priests of the god apollo not just an offense to the greek god and his priests but also an affront to the king himself shows the efforts of persian kings to protect all local religions/cults that are a part of the persian. Aftermath of persian war created new sense of greek unity came to identify themselves as a united people with a shared identity and culture freedom almost absent from greek political vocabulary before the persian wars after persian invasions very important to greeks defining term, freedom subjects of the persian empire basically slaves of the persian king claimed firm cultural boundary between themselves and neighbours unified people different from all others around them defining difference being freedom.
