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Solon and Clesithenes

Solon and Clesithenes

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Solon and Cleisthenes

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Solon's reforms

Archon: ~594 BC

  • liberated peasants from debt-slavery; abolished the whole system

  • slaves in other city-states: freed ans brought back by the state

  • freed peasants ->citizens

  • new assembly (ekklesia)

  • no farmland given -> day labourers, craftsmen

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Multiple Choice

How could people end up as debt-slaves?

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They did not pay taxes.

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The head of the house could sell his family.

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If the person in debt could not pay, his family members were sold as debt-slaves.

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The ruler of Athens could sell anyone as a debt-slave.

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Solon's new social system

Tymocracy

  • political rank based on income, not lineage

  • wealthy members of the demos included

  • social mobility possible

  • basis: medimnos (bushel; a unit of volume used to measure grain)

  • poor: below 200 bushels -> ekklesia

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media

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Multiple Choice

Who were eligible as archons?

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only those having more than 500 bushels

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those having between 300 and 500 bushels

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only those having unnder 200 bushels

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everybody

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Tyranny in Athens

Peisistratos

  • struggle for power among aristocratic families

  • rise of Peisistratos

  • single-man rule (tyranny)

  • supported by common people (religious festivals, sport events, theatre performances)

  • building projects (e.g. waterpipe system) -> work for people -> rising living standards

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Multiple Choice

Who did not like Peisistratos?

1

demos

2

aristocrats

3

his sons

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everyone hated him

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Cleisthenes

Archon: 508 BC

  • Pesistratos sons: hated

  • Cleisthenes: driving Hipparchos away with Spartan help

  • people: belong to districts (phylae)

  • voting: all citizens

  • some offices only for the rich

  • districts: basis for the army; commander: strategos (always elected)

  • ostracism: procedure to prevent tyranny

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Multiple Choice

Was it beneficial to break up the traditional ties?

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Yes

2

No

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