POLSCI 3VV3 Lecture Notes - Trireme, Direct Democracy, Hoplite
26 Feb 2013
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Event where greece and athens free citizens (fight their own wars) against empires (who have employees to fight their wars) Democratic athens trying to expand vs. much more conservative society sparta. Everyone starts with ancient greece: birth place of democracy, this civilization descends from here, they invented the term we use today, there are a lot of things in this society that came from ancient greece. Democracy is also argued to have existed in many different forms in history: ex. Where there isn"t an outstanding army, tend to have consensual mechanisms of government. Military revolution that causes democracy: hoplite phalanx. The weapon that allows athens to become powerful: trireme. Athens made their money through trade commercial democracy and imperial democracy: just like the recent democratic countries us and uk. It is a statement of the values of athenian democracy. What he has pericles is quite plausible. He writes this speech decades decades later.
