HISTORY
ANCIENT GREECE
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Athenian culture disappeared and was quickly replaced by Persians.
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Athenians showed their willingness to accept Spartan rule.
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Athenian society showed that democracy could not work during the Hellenistic Period
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Athenians were willing to try new ideas, ones that led to greatness.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Athens had been an imperial power in the 5th and 4th centuries BCE, but in the Hellenistic period it seemed only a second-rate city, its politicians bowing to foreign orders, its democracy robbed, its economy in shambles, and even its civic and religious institutions curtailed.
Detailed explanation-2: -Perhaps the area of greatest innovation, though, was in the small-scale production of mechanical devices.
Detailed explanation-3: -Greek democracy created at Athens was direct, rather than representative: any adult male citizen over the age of 20 could take part, and it was a duty to do so. The officials of the democracy were in part elected by the Assembly and in large part chosen by lottery in a process called sortition.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Hellenistic period saw the rise of New Comedy, Alexandrian poetry, translation efforts such as the Septuagint, and the philosophies of Stoicism, Epicureanism, and Pyrrhonism. In science, the works of the mathematician Euclid and the polymath Archimedes are exemplary.