Other ways to examine the finances behind the birth of Classical Greece

Although the birth of Classical Greece is often attributed to constitutional reforms Cleisthenes (508/507 BCE), achievement an economically minded government under Peisistratid tyrant Hippias (527–510 BCE) potentially paved way by advancing Athenian silver for exportation in international trade. It proposed here that new technology, which initiated transition from acquiring ‘dry’ ores silver-bearing lead ores, was introduced during time Peisistratids (561–510 BCE). Massive exploitation at Laurion Attica, later financed construction a war navy, appears evident pollution records Greenland ice, isotopic analyses sixth-century BCE Attic coins and late Iron Age Levantine hacksilver, reflected numbers votive figurines sanctuaries Sparta. Against backdrop threat with Persia imminent Spartan invasion resulted overthrow (510 it considered political occurred because both geologically politically disposed adopt this labour-intensive technology helped initiate, fund protect radical social experiment became known as Greece.