Moreover, the kings served as the supreme priest within the state religion and had some role in foreign policy (duiker 103)." ... Men were bred to be soldiers. ... Only at the age of thirty males were considered mature and then were allowed to live at home, but men were still soldiers until the age of sixty. ... This allowed philosophers like Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle to undermine the government, which created an instability among the city. ... Men went through rigorous military training, while women enjoyed more freedoms. ...

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The state seal of Virginia shows a man fighting ancient female amazons, and classical Greek women such as liberty appeared on America dimes, quarters and dollars. ... Many of the historical sources have been lost, and histories preserved from the past were written by upper class men for their own edification. ... Scholars have even debated whether this was a bona fide matriarchal society because in its surviving frescoes women are depicted more frequently than men. ... In a procession fresco from Knossos, the main political palace of Minoan civilization, the priestess is shown receiving tribut...

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Because these kingdoms were ruled by the Macedonian's, the people of Greece were rather unhappy as they remember the time when they had their freedom which had stripped from them, Hence, there was always a constant conflict within the city walls. ... With minds like Aristotle and Alexander the Great, Greece would use its government to expand its intelligential ideas of economy and wealth. ... Men were the dominant race of Greece. Women considered citizens and were able to own land and go to court over land, but women did have much more limited rights than the men did. ... With people ...

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In Athens, the men held public power, but in Sparta the state held public power (55). ... The individual lived and died for the state. ... Ironically, this soldier-centered state was the most liberal state with regard to the status of women. ... The famous philosopher Aristotle said; "between the sexes; the male is by nature superior and the female inferior, the male ruler and the female subject."... She is next mentioned within a few chapters. ...

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Because the plow required considerable strength, it was used only by men. Men spent most of the rest of their time raiding or looking out for raiders, so women mostly did everything else which involved lots of drudgery. 5. ... As ruler of the state, the pharaoh owned everything the people owned, including the people themselves. ...

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Although this system had originally brought Sparta to her hegemony in 404 BC with victory over Athens in the Peloponnesian War, flawed elements within her own economic system and the conservative nature of her leaders throughout the period had eventually led to the state's decline. ... This represented a weakness in the state and economic structure that hindered its power, and Aristotle (from The Politics, quoted in Hennessy, 1991, 69) is critical of Sparta's brutal methods employed to control them as he states "results of this kind go to show that the state has yet to learn the righ...

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• Grade Level: Graduate