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1
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594

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Solon

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2
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Seisactheia

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Cancellation of all debts

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3
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Axones

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Wooden tablets

Solon laws inscribed on these

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4
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570

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Solon is awarded Salamis by Sparta instead of Megara

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According to Herodotus, Solon met with ___________, who considered him a very wise man.

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King Croesus of Lydia

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6
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What was Solon’s motto?

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“Avoid Excess”

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7
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Solon never tried to make himself a-

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Tyrant

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8
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Solon is used as a term meaning-

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Legislator

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9
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What was Solon’s occupation?

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Poet, traveler, and lawgiver

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10
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Who established the Council of Four Hundred?

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Solon

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What was the Council of Four Hundred’s original duty?

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To prepare the business of the Assembly

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Heliaea

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Body of 6,000 jurors

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13
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How long did Solon serve as archon?

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22 years

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14
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Shore(Coast) party

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Merchants

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Plain Party

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Wealthy landowners

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Mountain(Hill) Party

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Peasants and laborers

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17
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Which party did Pisistratus lead?

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Mountain Party

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18
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556

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Pisistratus’ first expulsion

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19
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550

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Pisistratus’ return with Phye

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20
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549

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Pisistratus’ second expulsion

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546

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Pisistratus’ third and final rise to power

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22
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How long did Pisistratus rule during his final reign?

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20 years

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23
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527

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Pisistratus’ death

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Name Pisistratus’ sons

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Hippias, Hipparchus, and Thessalus

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Which over Pisistratus’ sons were not involved in politics?

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Thessalus

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26
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Tyranicides

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Aristogeniton and Harmodius

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27
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What tyrant did Aristogeniton and Harmodius kill?

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Hipparchus

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28
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Who did Athens appeal to in order to overthrow Hippias?

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Cleisthenes of the Alcaemonid family

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29
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Who else is a member of the Alcaemonids?

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Megacles

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30
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“First free Athens”

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Fake Delphic Oracle would repeat this to Spartans until they got rid of Hippias for Athens

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31
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What Spartan King drove out Hippias?

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Cleomenes

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32
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510

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Hippias expelled; Isagorus establishes an oligarchy

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33
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507

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Cleisthenes restores democracy

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34
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Who is considered the “second founder of Athenian democracy”?

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Cleisthenes

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Cleisthenes’ legislation

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Abolished four tribes and 360 clans
Divided Attica into 10 tribes and 30 trittyes
Council of Four Hundred is replaced by Council of Five Hundred

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36
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Deme

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Geographical district

37
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Metics

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Foreign freemen

38
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Phratry

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Brotherhood

39
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Strategos

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General that joined the Polemarchos

40
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Who was Cleisthenes’ major rival?

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Isagorus

41
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462

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Council of Areopagus loses a bunch of power

42
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Ostracism

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Exile
Name came from pieces of pottery called ostraka
Could keep property and citizenship

43
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Who was the first person to be ostracized? The last?

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Hipparchus; Hyperbolus

44
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487-417

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Years ostracism used

45
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Rule of the few

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Oligarchy

46
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Rule of the People

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Democracy(Insomnia)

47
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Festivals established by Pisistratus

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Panathenaea and Dionysia

48
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Kerarneikos

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Burial ground outside of Athens

49
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478

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Gelon dies

Heiron becomes ruler of Syracuse

50
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Delian League

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477
Protect and rescue cities from Persian re-conquest
Offset the cost of the war
Revenge on Persia

51
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Who decided how much each member contributed to the Delian Treasury?

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Aristides, “The Just”

52
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What did Athens contribute to the Delian Treasury?

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Ships

53
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Athens port was moved from ________ to ________.

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Phaleron; Piraeus

54
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Who moved the Athenian port?

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Themistocles

55
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458

A

Long Walls connect Athens to Piraeus

56
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Who was the architect of Piraeus?

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Hippodamus

57
Q

474

A

Battle of Cyme

58
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Herodotus of Halicarnassus

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484-440

“Father of History”

59
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471

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Themistocles is ostracized

Pausanius is starved to death

60
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What son of Militiades brought home the bones of Theseus to Athens?

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Cimon

61
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Who was Cimon’s main opponent?

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Ephialtes

62
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469

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Nazos is the first state to revolt from the Delian League

63
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Battle of Eurymedon

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468

Double land battle

64
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Third Messenian War

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464

Earthquake

65
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461

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Cimon ostracized because of his pro-Sparta policy

66
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What Athenian statesman was ostracized because of his raising sea power and had later become the Persian provincial governor of Magnesia?

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Themistocles

67
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Who ruled Athens during her Golden Age?

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Pericles

68
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454

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Delian Treasury moved from Delos to Athens

69
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451

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Citizenship restricted

70
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Pericles

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Elected strategos 30 consecutive years. Sacrificed army for navy. Moved Delian Treasury. Restricted citizenship. Initiated building of Long Walls. Foreign Policy - imperialism

71
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“Future Ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.”

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Pericles

72
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458

A

Battle of Aegina

73
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457

A

Battle of Tanagrea

Battle of Oenophyta

74
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456

A

Megabyzus drained canal of Nile, drives Greeks out of Egypt

75
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446

A

The Thirty Year Treaty

76
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How long did the Thirty Year Treaty last?

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Three years

77
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440

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Samos and Byzantium revolt from Delian League

78
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Who are the architects of the Parthenon?

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Ictinus and Callicrates

79
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Phidias

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Pericles’ sculptor
Made the “Athene Parthenos” and the “Olympian Zeus” out of gold and ivory
Targeted in order to indirectly attack Pericles

80
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Temple of Sunion

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Dedicated to Poseidon

81
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Aeschylus

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Wrote Persea

82
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Sophocles

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Priest of Asclepius

83
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Anaxagorus

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Teacher of Pericles

Expelled because taught the sun was not a god

84
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Socrates

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“The unexamined life is not worth living”
Wisest man in the world
Greatest philosopher in the world

85
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Sophists

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Educators that traveled throughout Greece

86
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Protagorus

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415
First and greatest sophist
Banished because of book, On the Gods, that questioned the existence of Gods
“Man is the measure of all things”

87
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Name significant sophists.

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Protagorus, Gorgias, Prodicus, and Hippias

88
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Erechtheum

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It’s on the Acropolis

89
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Solon’s legislation

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Repealed Draco’s legislation(except concerning murder)
Divide Athens into four economic classes
Seisactheia
Embargo on all agricultural foods except olives and oil

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