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Ancient Greece
Spartan system of government
According to the legend, from period of the king Lycurgus all existing Spartan laws were grounded. Lycurgus had conceived also political institutions, established after...
Ancient Greece
Ancient Athens – early politics and government
Attica peninsula, which raised steeply from the Aegean Sea, in the far eastern branch of central Greece. Attica had a field, which provided a...
Ancient Greece
Draco and Solon era in Athens (621-593. B.C)
DRACO- Athenians entrusted Thesmothet Draco in 621 BC to write laws. Dracon was the oldest legislator of Athens. Before Dracon law, trials in Athens,...
Ancient Greece
Peisistratos and Cleisthenes era in Athens (561-508. B.C)
Peisistratos (Pisistratus)- after the departure of Solon from Athens, the political struggle was continued. For the government in Athens fought three parties: the party...
Ancient Greece
The Greco-Persian Wars (First Persian invasion of Greece 492-490 B.C)
Persian emperor Darius I 513 BC. went to Europe. He crossed the Bosporus and invaded Thrace. He then headed north across the Danube and...
Ancient Greece
The Greco-Persian Wars (Second Persian invasion of Greece 480-479 BC)
Darius died in 486 BC and was succeeded by his son Xerxes, who had suppressed the rebellion in Egypt and moved to Greece. The...
Ancient Greece
Athens pentecontaetia
It was a fifty-year period between the Greco-Persian and Peloponnesian wars. In this period, the Athenians have gained dominance in the Aegean Sea, economically...