movie notes

• lyceny was brought up to be a ruler, he set the Greeks on the path to Empire.
• Athen lays in the center of the peninsula, which we now call Greece. 
• reading and writing was a rare skill
• life expectancy was less than 15 years 
• aristocrats ruled Athens
• Aristotle wrote about Greece and how it is turned on its people.
• Greece does not have the physical unity for a really great civilization of the Ancient World.
• Greece was divided into City States
• Sparta was a City State
• Spartans were brought up from birth to be soldiers.
• Sparta conquered 4,000 sq. miles
• Sparta was a threat to all the other city states