HIST-UA 1 Lecture 4: Classical Age
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Classical age: 500 b. c, sophisticated civilizations, rome good example a. i. Most european languages based off of latin: greece b. i. Difficult to conquer people b. v. traders around mediterranean b. vi. Sophisticated language good literature, plays, philosophies b. vi. 1. Influential thinkers what defines western philosophy b. vi. 2. a. Plato the republic (shouldn"t be ruled by hereditary monarchs) b. vi. 2. b. Direct democracy (for men whose parents were born there) b. vii. 2. Economy based on healthy middle class everyone has a stake in it b. vii. 3. Huge slave population, from a young age spartan boys learn to be soldiers b. viii. 4. Persians later try again in 480 b. c. b. ix. 5. Afterward these battles, things go well in greece for a while b. x. 1. Bring army of greece and they conquer the whole. Greece are effective soldiers armies of free men b. xi. 3. a. Not peasants that are forced into conscription b. xi. 4. After he dies, empire breaks into old greek and. Middle east takes up persian ideals later.
