notes continued:
male athenians citizens listen, discuss and vote on topics that effect athenian life
spoke their minds and excersized their voted
council of 500- represented the full time gov't of athens
had 500 citizens, 50 from each of the ten tribes, who serve from one year
could issue laws on its own
the heliaea and other courts where citizen juries would listen to cases would vote on whether or not someone was guilty, and vote on punishments for people who were
supplemented by
- the council of the areopaguss
- the achrons
- the generals
geography of athens:
location: greece in southern europe
includes thousands of islands
mountains cover 70- 80% of greece
made of marble or limestone
limestone was in the hills that the city was located on
seas- aegenian, iorian, medditerranean, and the sea of crete
penninsula that jets out into the medditerranean sea
sothern tip of greece is called pelcpomesus
fish were part of diet
climate- mid, wet winters
about 50 degrees, lots of rain, mountains get snow
hot dry summers, about 80 degrees
climate allows for a lot of outdoor activities
no harsh weather
land was covered in mountains so transportation was very difficult
crops could be grown easily, but farmland was scarse
nature resources:
- lignite
- petroleum
- irone one
- bauxite
- lead
- zinc
- nickel
- magnite
- marble
- salt
- limestone
transported goods and made athens prosperous
tackled with many different kinds of people
expanded imports to new levels
farming was hard due to limited amounts of good soil and cropland
20% of land was for growing crops
main crops:barley, grapes and olives
mining- one was commin in athens
jobs- did metal work because of the silver mines of laurium
druggists were usually consisted of females
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