Leaders In Greece

Today we went on with our notes about the leaders of Greece. As I ended yesterday Hippias was ostracized and a new leader had to be chosen. Two other aristocrats were put in line for power and the power ended up going to another tyrant named Isagoras. Isagoras tried to banish the more favored aristocrat for power Cleisthenes. The people of Athens were so angered by their new leader for the couple years he was in power and revolted against him. This was one of the first acts of democracy in our known history. They trapped Isagoras on top of the acropolis for two days then he fled and was banished. The year 503 BCE was one of the most important years for the history of democracy. Cleisthenes was a member of a very elite rich family and was insulated from the Hoi polli. Even though he was definitely not one of the people he was a pretty crafty politician. We also talked about the impending weather that might be coming our way tomorrow and the possibility of a cyber day. We discussed our projects that are due soon and our activities that we will be doing when Mr Schick is gone. That's all for today and all for our notes.