HIST-UA 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Delian League
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In 600 bc solon takes over athens and creates an assembly where any free man could vote and a council of 400. Peisistratus then takes over and gets rid of the two assemblies and focuses on economy such as giving loans. Then there was a period of civil war. Cleisthenes then comes in makes everyone become citizens, putting athens on the right path for democracy. Citizens have public and private responsibility: everymale had to participate in government. Government: athens was becoming a democracy while sparta had two kinds in charge and 5 overseers, making them more of an oligarchy. Persia and greece were different as greece had: Persia: greek was a plentiful and wealthy land. Xerxes had to figure out how to get to greece. Built a bridge across hellespont to go across land in order to avoid athenian navy. Storm then sank the bridge and he had to rebuild. Picked battle sites to give them the upper hand: ex.
