POLS 2900 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Trireme
17 Dec 2016
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Pols 2900: perspectives on politics classics of western political thought. Situating greece: new practices and ideas are forming. Socratics laced the ground work for western political thought. Drama and tragedy formed in athens which allowed people to express themselves. Democracy was giving to the people to give them some power in order to give the. Unity among the greek city states was involved by the wars and attacks on the country. The polis: self-governing, self-ruled, small city states. Some were only a few hundred people while some were in the few thousands. They unify power and they have the same customs. The greeks have fended off some of the attacks by the great persian. Democracy was created through the war with persia. The city states were not all urban or commercialized. Athens was a largest city state and operated a area the size of pei and had a total population of. Religious festivals were included in public and private life.
