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Mind Map by Nathan Shan, updated more than 1 year ago
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Solon's class system
- Definitively
categorized status
- Organized Attica's
military force
- Made Athens a more
potent military power
- Battle of Marathon
490BCE
- Battle of Marathon
490BCE
- Made Athens a more
potent military power
- Made people
know their place
- Before one was
either a land owner
or a land worker
- Simplified participation in
politics (e.g. Boule only
allowed top 3 classes)
- Before one was
either a land owner
or a land worker
- Reduced tension
between poor & rich
- Lessened threat
of uprising
- Lessened threat
of uprising
- Organized Attica's
military force
- Based entirely on wealth
- Upper class was no
longer just the
noble families
- Took status away from
eupatrid families &
eupatridae could even be
placed in a lower class
- Outraged the ruling class
- Outraged the ruling class
- Took status away from
eupatrid families &
eupatridae could even be
placed in a lower class
- Encouraged
rich traders to
come to Attica
- Encouraged
citizens to
produce more food
- Economic growth
- Economic growth
- Upper class was no
longer just the
noble families
- Gave archon oppertunity to all
members of the top class
- No longer entirely controlled by eupatridae
- Still an oligarchy (or
timocracy) as full power is
still in the hands of the few
- Areopagos no longer exclusive
- Still an oligarchy (or
timocracy) as full power is
still in the hands of the few
- Reduced corruption
between nobles
- Those in power more likely to be
skilled politicians rather than
favourite family members
- More effective government
- More effective government
- Those in power more likely to be
skilled politicians rather than
favourite family members
- No longer entirely controlled by eupatridae
- Four classes with distinct military roles
- Pentakosiomedimnoi -
500+ medimnoi
- Generals
(Strategoi)
- Highest class
- Generals
(Strategoi)
- Hippeis - 300-500
medimnoi
- Medium-high class
- Horse owners,
Cavalry
- Medium-high class
- Zeugitai - 200-300
medimnoi
- Hoplites &
general infantry
- Medium class
- Hoplites &
general infantry
- Thetes - 200 medimnoi or less
- Oarsmen, personal
servants or auxilary
forces (e.g. slingers)
- Low class
- Oarsmen, personal
servants or auxilary
forces (e.g. slingers)
- Pentakosiomedimnoi -
500+ medimnoi
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