3/4/13

Today in Western Civ we watched more of the video. I find the video very interesting. We took of from where we left off, the red light district. This is where all the pottery was made. It was a kind of dirty place with prostitutes and just bad people over all. The potters started selling their art after freedom was given to them. The part of the video that we watched was mainly about Cleisthenes though. After he came to power the Spartans eventually took over and sent Cleisthenes and his family away. I think the man was named Igoras who conspired again Cleisthenes and turned the Spartans against Athens (sorry for the names, I lent my notes to someone because they were absent). After a short period of time the common Athenian people uprised against the Spartans. The Athenian people won and they brought Cleisthenes back to Athens to rule. We left off at the decision that Cleisthenes had to make over how to govern the people, who were obsessed with power. So he was trying to figure out how to "control them".