HISB10H3 Lecture 5: HISB10 Week 5 and 6 Notes.docx
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Artemison is the famous temple where coins were found (gold and silver), also an excavation at. Argo"s temple revealed large bundle of iron spits as well (giving coins and taking spits in return) Pisistratus was accepted into society and into the aristocracy however when he died and his sons took his place, they were not liked. They were disliked by the other leaders, and his son. With the help of the spartans, one of the famous families was thrown into exile (end of tyranny) Athenians become scared of tyranny and do whatever it took to prevent such things to happen again. They introduced ostracism (ostrakon) where once a year all the citizens would cast a vote on who would be exiled for 10 years. Cleisthenes reformed the previous system of laws of solon. Just like solon was trying to create a more democratic institution where the power would be help by the people.
