video notes

Today in class we took notes on a video that we watched during class. Here is the information that I gathered.

  • Socrates
  • Hercules 
  • 508 BC in Athens the ordinary people turned on their rulers and demanded freedom of their suppressions 
  • Cleisthenes 
    • he had been brought up from earth to be a ruler 
    • look upon the people 
    • in his life and the history of Greece and civilization, he would see that the people should have freedom and should be able to govern themselves 
    • he set his fellow greeks on the path to democracy 
    • born around 570 BC 
    • he was taught that he was an aristocrat 
    • 6th century BC, aristocrats controlled everything that happened
  • Athens was a city state
    • reading and writing was a minor skill 
    • life expectancy was less than 15 years 
    • they didn't care much for medicine, and didn't have the education to help the sick
    • no one was equal 
    • their people turned against their selves 
    • aristocrats held power against the rest of the citizens/population 
    • stayed on the verge of building a great empire 
    • divided into city states 
      • each fiercely independent
    • death was nothing 
    • ancient tales and myths had a huge roll in their lives 
      • everyone recited these tales to whoever would pay 
      • these stories shaped him from his earliest days 
      • heroes are terrific achievers 
        • determined to seiz victory at all costs 
  • Big change in the middle of the 6th century 
    • someone seized land, a tyrant 
    • one day a noble man rode in to Athens, and he wanted the rule of Athens, he had the protection of a goddess 
  • had olympic games 

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