Today in class we continued the movie. We proceeded to take important notes.

•  Pisistratus seized power by coming into Athens with a beautiful woman pretending to be Athenia and said let me be ruler; they went with it
• Cleisthenes was brought up as a ruler and an aristocrat
• Athens was rocked by an extraordinarily event
• The people put their destiny in their own hand
• They rose up in a revolution
• Isagoris the leader who took over after Hippias 
• The people rose up against the leaders and no one had ever done this in the past
• 508 B.C Athens was first made an empire
• The people siezed power from their rulers for the first time
• They wanted more freedom
• Ordinary people raised up and now the people turned to Cleisthenes
• They asked him to build an empire; He came back after the exile
• He had to design a revolutionary form of government 
• He had a meeting place called the agora where they had meetings and talked
• He created the simple vote; Black pebble & White pebble 
• They would gather of 9 days to talk about everything: war, taxes, roads, etc
• Anyone could talk and share their opinion except ... women
• They all were the government; It was a system of government that would transform everything
• A new generation would take up his legacy
• They had to defend their state from Persia 
• 490 B.C Pheidippides made one the biggest athletic achievements in history
• He home was going against the Persian's
• Athens was gaining power and the Persian's felt threatened
• Marathon: 26 miles from Athens, where the Persians landed
• The Persians were outnumbered 2 to 1
• People would just keep fighting and going
• They had to just keep pushing forward and moving your feet
• Hoplites: small group of soldiers
• Pheidippides ran 140 miles in just 2 days
• His quest ran in failer
• His fellow Athenians had to fight in hope
• He ran from Athens to Sparta to get help 
• The Spartans said no; they said it wasn;t their power
• The Persians had scattered
• 6000 Persians were killed in just 1 day
• Athens had made it through and brought a victory 
• Themistocles