HIST 1001 Lecture : History Notes
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Military society developed to control threat of rebellion. Marriage, but no home life until age 30. Women train in athletics and combat, encourage men in military prowess. Some relaxation of discipline by 4th c. ce. Maritime trade brings increasing prosperity beginning 7th c. bce. Increasing socio-economic tensions government/poor are dispossessed by accretion of land in hands of wealthy) Women, slaves excluded (women are passive citizens, can transmit. Class conflict (rising merchant class demands more say in. Manhood rite at 12, must survive for several days on their own. All adult male citizens can participate in government (ca. Member of the royal house but spent his youth as a hostage in thebes. There he learned the theban military tactics and befriended epaminondas. 24 years old and back in macedonia, philip became the guardian of his nephew, the young macedonian king. Philip refashioned the macedonian army and moved against thrace, whose great attraction was its gold mines.
