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Notes on video lecture:
508 BC: The Democratic Reforms of Cleisthenes
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on April 12, 2015 (go to class or lectures)
Choose from these words to fill the blanks below:
Delphi, pivotal, three, Solon, Pericles, individual, speech, scrutinized, tyranny, geographical, neighborhood, logistical, wholesale, Megacles, limit, 6000, property, Alcmaeonidae, tenth, Western, eponymous, clans, equal, cross, trittyes, revolution, juries, ten, hero, democratic, 200, citizen, education, war, shard, free, Golden
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Cleisthenes
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508 BC: set Athens on                      footing
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came from the                          [alk-MEE-an-id-igh] clan
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was originally mistrusted because of impiety and sacrilege committed by                 
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632 BC: Megacles was the archon                    was convicted of killing Cylon's supporters and was exiled from the city
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story of revolution of Athens
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shows how controversial this family was
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Herodotus tells us
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Alcmaeonids has furnished a new temple at             
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had bribed the priestess there
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anytime a Spartan came, the priestess should say "         Athens"
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this worked for Cleomenes [klee-OM-ah-neez]
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first supported Isogarus
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undertook a                    reconstruction of the Athenian constitution
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divides Attica
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city
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coast
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inland
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each of the three areas were divided into ten                 
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each trittys was made up of one or more demes
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the heart of the system
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the demes were the preexisting neighborhoods
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in the city a deme might be a block or a                         
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in a country a deme was more of an area
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ten new tribes (phylai) were created
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each consisting of            trittyes, one in each area
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each one named after a         
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this obliterated the local power of the old           
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Athens was redefined on a                          basis
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no longer the                  classes that Solon had set up
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each tribe should represent a            section of the population
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each roughly            in size
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deme
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most important in the life of the                     
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deme identity was what made you a citizen
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when males turned 18, an adult recommended you, you were                       , then inducted and became citizen
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your deme name became part of your name
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had meetings
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phyle
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official identifications
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officers, treasury
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comprised the new council
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there was a shadowy council of 400 that            had created
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boule
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tribes made up the new boule
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500 citizens
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50 selected by lot every year from each tribe
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served as a new                    center
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frame legislation
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debated and voted on by the assembly
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"it seemed good to the people"
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send out ambassadors
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final power to declare        stayed with the assembly
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an important new democratic invention
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a group of 500 was a bit big to connect business
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ten units of year
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one tribe would serve for a            of the year
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all of this was a mechanism which draws all citizens into governing their own state
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a massive undertaking
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must have required some kind of               
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deme identification was passed from father to son
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even if you moved
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assembly
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included all citizens
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guaranteed freedom of             
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to persuade, you had to speed publicly and well
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magistrates
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9 archons
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10 Strategoi (generals)
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important
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archons served for just one year, then examination
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generals could be reelected without           
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                 was never an archon but was a general over and over
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great speaker
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during the Greek              Age (5th century BC Greece), Athenian military and external affairs were mostly entrusted to the ten strategoi who were elected each year by the ten tribes of citizens
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popular courts
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citizens              to hear cases
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ostracism
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introduced by Cleisthenes
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an official process
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needed to have a quorum of         
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each had a pot           
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each wrote a name on it
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the citizen that got the most votes had to leave Athens for        years
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clearly meant to deter               
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according to Aristotle, one of the most democratic parts of Cleisthenes reforms
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these reforms much has required a large amount of                      preparation
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we have almost no evidence as to how it was conducted
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was a                moment in history
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usually today we speak of more gradually changes in history
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but the Athenian                      and the Cleisthenic reforms
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this was new and massive change
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in society and politics
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laid the foundation for democracy which has been emulated in                culture
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lasted in this polis for at least        years

Vocabulary:

trittys, n. [TRIT-is] a population division in ancient Attica, established by the reforms of Cleisthenes in 508 BC, the name means thirtieth and there were in fact thirty trittyes in Attica ⇒ "Each tribe, or phyle of Athens was composed of three trittyes, one from the coast, one from the city, and one from the inland area. Trittyes were composed of one or more demes; demes were the basic unit of division in Attica."
deme, n. [deem] a suburb of Athens or a subdivision of Attica, the region of Greece surrounding Athens, enrollment in the citizen-lists of a deme became the requirement for citizenship ⇒ "Males 18 years of age were registered in their local demes, thereby acquiring civic status and rights."
phyle, n. [FIGHL] an ancient Greek term for clan or tribe, usually ruled by a basileus ⇒ "A large citizens' organization based on kinship, constituting the largest political subdivision of an ancient Greek city-state."

Spelling Corrections:

Herodatus ⇒ Herodotus
impeity ⇒ impiety

Flashcards:

Cleisthenes was from what clan?
Alcmaeonidae [alk-MEE-an-id-igh] or the Alcmaeonids [alk-MEE-an-ids]
pr. Mycenae
[migh-SEE-nee]
pr. Thermopylae
[ther-MOP-ah-lee]
Hesiod's Creation Myth: Theogony
The Spartan Way of Life
600 BC Tyrants and Sages: Cypselus and Periander
800-700 BC: Athens Before Solon
Solon Against Political, Economic, and Moral Decline
Peisistratos: Tyranny and Civic Identity
The End of Athenian Tyranny and the Democratic Revolution
508 BC: The Democratic Reforms of Cleisthenes
Herodotus and The Histories
The First Persian War and the Battle of Marathon
Themistocles, Silver, and Greek Naval Policy
Xerxes and the Second Invasion of Greece
The Delian League
From Delian League to Athenian Empire
Pericles: Aristocrat, Orator and Democratic Citizen
Sophocles' Antigone: Tragedy and Athenian Civic Life