Western Civ day 25

• Athens was turned against itself: one half was the wealthy aristocrats while and the other was the regular citizens
• Greece had no plains unlike the other civilizations around it
• Greece was divided into city-states because of its mountainous ranges
• Spartans wore red capes to cover their enemies and their own blood
• Spartans had little to no possessions
• Helots were forced to work in the field for the Spartans
• Spartans had a yearly war with the helots to show how powerful they were over them
• Spartans wanted to die for their people because their lives were terrible 
• Homer wrote about two vicious battles in the Illiad and the Odessey
• Achilles was an honored Greek hero
• he was offered a long and ordinary life of work or a short life in exchange to go to war
• The Eastern Mediterranean was the greatest marketplace of the world
• Everyone was willing to trade for Greece's cooking oil (olive oil)
• The Olympics were founded in 776 B.C.
• The games allowed any ranked citizen to play, except women, who were not allowed to play nor inside the stadium