ancient greece
In prehistoric times Attica was a region that contained many tiny independent villages. Much later, in the great days of Athens, stories were told of the legendary King Theseus who, it was said, had united all the villages into one state. It's capital was Athens. It's citizens still mostly country dwellers were all Athenians. The focus of the unified state was the great rock of Athens- the Akropoli (high-city). From the were splendid views over land and sea. But the Athenians did not value the views for the same reason the tourists do today. They needed the views to tell them when an enemy was approaching. In every Greek State, so Aristotle tells us, there were a few rich people and a large number of the poor. Rich and poor usually plotted against each other. Sometimes they even fought in a civil war. Greek called this quarrel stasis. Many states were weekend by it. The Athenians, pleased with the system that gave every citizen a place in the government, did their best to make
The Greek system for writing down numbers was awkward, and the boys often used pebbles instead. But there were some things that remained the same, and one of them was slavery. A slave who carried his books, guarded him in the streets, and made certain that he got to school on time. A slave was a man that had so little pride that he let himself be captured, giving up his honor to save his skin. Since there were more women than men at the meeting, Athena was elected. The old quarrels began to be forgotten, and the experiment was a success. There were many of them in Athens- a few on the farms, some in the mines, and the rest in the city. They called the pebbles calculus, and when they counted with them, the "calculated. Older students learned by discussions and arguments, and by chanting verses from homer and the other great writers. The Athenians however, knew that there was a difference. In some cities, slaves were treated with savage cruelty, but in Athens they had a better time of it, and there were laws to curb the harshness of bad tempered masters. It taught us how to control our society and our people. At the first meeting where they out numbered the women, they voted them out of the assembly altogether.
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