ANTH 4220 Chapter Notes -Athenian Democracy, Oligarchy, Inductive Reasoning
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Classical studies: the fourth century; changing ideas, continuing. When sparta became a naval power, the athenians lost an important advantage, lost the war, and lost their empire. Commerce by land and sea was disrupted. A good deal of territory was ravaged, and livestock and farming implements were destroyed, as were growing vines and olive trees. Mercenary soldiers became an increasingly popular profession. In athens, 50-80 thousand people had probably died of the plague. Some cities like melos, had been virtually annihilated. The peloponnesian war transformed the greek world, but did not destroy it. In states formerly allied with athens, lysander set up decharchies, boards of ten pro- For athens, he assigned a board of thirty. Ultimately the thirty were undone by their own abandon. The murderous conduct of the thirty had alienated many greeks from sparta. The athenians agreed on the rst recorded amnesty in history.
