Period 7 World History
01 / 15 / 15
Athens is one of the greatest cities in Greece, without Athens, Greece wouldn't have its glory
today. Athens has brought so many glories to Greeks and enriched Greece with so
many aspects. What made Athens great? This is a very broad question because there are so many
answers to that and the factors that made Athens great are uncountable.
First of all, all the Athenians were stick together as one unit, they all did their own job. Also, the
Greeks ancestors have given the offsprings good rules to follow as a city. By the courage and the
virtues from the old ones, they have handed it on to the next generation, a free country.
Secondly, the Athenians which were mostly in the prime of life, added to the power of their empire
and have organized Greece in a good way that is perfectly well able to look after itself both in peace
and in wars. This is how we seen Greece as an independently city.
For the third idea, I think one of the factors that made Athens so grandiose is the spirit in which they
faced their trails and constitution and the way of life. To be more specific, their education system is
different from the Spartans, the boyhood of the Spartans were just keep training for wars and to be
taught how to be a great warrior. But Athens was different, they lived their lives normally, no
trainings, no violence. Whenever the war came upon them, they just faced it with a thousands of
brave hearts.
Additional, the Athenians thought it was more case of them being a model to others instead of
imitating anyone else. What it means by that is they had special and unique government system, and
the system was good enough to be the model for others, therefore, that they didn't have to copy any
other cities' systems, they were the one who's master them.
The fifth, they're the only one who has DEMOCRACY, because that the power was in the hands
not of a minority or a few people but of the whole people. Not only the people who had intelligence
could have ideas but also all the people had rights to give suggestions.
The sixth reason was that their political life is free and open, so was their day-to-day life in their
relations with each other. What this means is that people could associate with each other with open-
minded thoughts and it was free to talk about anything. The kind of society would make citizens feel
more comfortable and easy to fit in.
For the seventh reason, I found out that they obey the laws really well and gave their obedience to
those whom they put in positions of authority, because those people gave them acknowledged laws.
Last but not least, the Athenians could have entertainments after they have done with all their work,
from this information we can know that Athens was a free and have rights to do so many things, they
were equal and live a happy life. This is an important factor which made Athens great!
There're still a lot of reasons why Athens was seen as a great city. I'll give more examples: the
Athenians didn't want to lead all the beautiful things to extravagance, they were more into simple and
not luxuries. Also, they gave people goods but don't expect good things from people, they opened
their country to the whole world and made friends from all over the world while gaining new
knowledge; the Athenians had a spirit of adventure, they knew their duty, they were ashamed to fall
below a certain standard, they made up their minds, gave Athens the best contribution that they could
etc. All these little things mix up together made Athens such a wonderful city with grandeur.
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