The Greeks Crucible of Civilization

• Greeks saw the creation of arts and architecture. 
• The Greeks had many great people in their civilization.
• Clestanies realized that the people of Greece should have a chance for freedom, a chance to rule themselves.
• Clestanies was born around 570 b.c.
• He was born at Athens. 
• When Clestanies was a kid, Greece was not yet an empire.
• Reading and writing for the Athenians was very little. 
• The life expectancy for them was 15 years
• The great civilizations of Clestanies days were around Egypt and Persia.
• Greece is an odd great civilization because it had no great rivers and every other civilization that was  great had some great river. 
• Greece was made up of city states.
• The city state of Sparta was the greatest city state that could have taken over all of Greece. 
• The kids in Sparta were brought up as warriors and also to deal with anything and lived life without many pleasures.
• By Clestanies time the Spartans had conquered around 4000 miles of Greece.
• One thing that inspired him was the stories that the people of Greece told. 
• Their stories influenced and shaped him from his earliest days.
• Heroes of the stories influenced him very much and images of these heroes can be found over many of Greeks art.
• His goal was to become a real life hero which was able to accomplish
• Pysistrotis was a great leader of Athens because he lowered taxes and issued loans which  allowed the Athenians to make bigger farms, which than allowed the nation to become very advanced and had a great civilization.
• Greece was surrounded by many great empires. 
• Greece was also the great market place of the world, which allowed the country to become very advanced. 
• There was a great invention that came from Athens. The vase.
• The artists that made the vases, were the lowest of the low in the society.
• Ahtenian pottery had become very complicated because they actually painted the vase and made many different designs on it and made great art which is still used to make vases today.
• The reason of this was because the potters wanted to compete with each other and tried to make greater art than one another.
• Clestanies watched his homeland go from a modest settlement into  a big economic power.
• When Prysistrotis died his son Hypiot took over which the Athenians hated.
• When his brother died he got really mad and killed the murderers and tortured their wives also. 
• He became bitter and suspicious of everyone and started executing and banishing random people.
• Clestanies knew that something had to be done about Hypiot. 
• The first thing of his heroism was than created because he was able to over throw Hypiot whom was captured and banished forever.
• Clestanies was now the greatest power in Athens. He was now a living hero.
• The olympic games were invented by the Greeks to show great power over everyone else for whoever won. There was no physical prise, but the prise was fame all over Greece.
• When Clestanies was in power he soon realized that people were conspiring against him so that meant that Cleastanies had to fight for his life. 
• One of the men that wanted him dead called the Spartans to help him take over the reigns of Athens.
• he was able to over throw Clestanies and now the new rules was able to train Spartans in Athens.
• When Clestanies was exiled, Athens under went an extraordinarily event, the people of Athens rose up to a revolution.
• The common Athenians were able to over throw the new leader and the Spartans guarding him in only 2 days.
• This was Athens first step to and Empire.
• This was the first time in history when the people rose up against one of their own leaders.
• Clestanies was than called back from exile and was asked to form a government.
• He had to design a revolutionary government system. 
• A government in which the people of the society had a say in what the government did and they could also elect the leaders.
• A system of government which we now know as democracy. 
• This system of government set up some of the greatest bases that which the world has never seen.