Greece

• 508 B.C. ordinary turn on their rulers.
• Cleisthenes want the regular people to govern themselves.
• Aristocrat- a member of the ruling class
• Cleisthenes was an aristocrat 
• Acropolis- Athens was built around and on this, it's big area of rock.
• Aristocrats owned most of the land, hired people, and payed people whatever they felt like.
• Regular people work long hours and you don't get much in return
• Greece was divided into city-states
• mountains separated the city-states, they spoke the same language, the same god, same experiences, just they didn't get a long.
• Sparta was a big city state
• Women had a fair amount of respect and a bigger responsibility than Athens society.  
• covered 4,000 sq miles
• Cleisthenes was inspired by the stories and myths. 
• Iliad story of the Trojan wars, Odyssey story of Odisious trying to get home after the Trojan war. 
• Homer wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey. 
• Tyrant- somebody that comes in a seizes control. 
• Pisistratus- Cleisthenes brother in law, comes in with "The Goddess"