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The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece

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by Ober, Josiah


  transfer payments, 252

  transportation of populations, 179

  tribes, 164, 165f, 170–71, 224

  triremes, 169

  trust, 170–71

  Tuck, Richard, 336n19

  Tyndarides, 186–87

  tyranny: in Athens, 153, 158–60; defined, 157; etymology of, 350n2; military capabilities underpinning, 137; rarity of, in Greek world, 157–58; as regime type, 40; in Sicily, 60, 176–78, 253; in Syracuse, 178–82, 253

  United States: current population of, 22; wealth and income distribution in, 90

  urbanization, 86–88, 88t, 102, 340n34

  U.S. Constitution, 162

  Valaoras, Vasilios, 85

  vegetables, 29

  wages, 91, 93–95, 94t, 205, 303

  Wallis, John, 10, 116, 125, 135

  warfare: characteristics of, 30–31; citizen-centered regimes favored by, 131, 136; democracies successful in, 325–26; equipment for, 130, 136, 286; expertise in, 137, 206, 248–49; independence maintained through, 107–8; Sparta and, 140; technology and tactics of, 136, 206, 226, 286–88, 362n38. See also fortifications; siege warfare

  warlords: in fourth century, 223; Hellenistic, 19, 300–302, 309, 314; Macedonian, 70, 282; in Sicily and Syracuse, 254–57, 289

  warships, 30, 159, 169, 206, 359n50. See also navy

  weak ties, in networks, 171

  wealth: competition promoting, 117–19; conditions for, 105–19; distribution of, 89–98; explanation of, 101–5, 120–21, 188–89; rule egalitarianism promoting, 103, 111–17; in Sicily, 188–89; in Sparta, 140–41; Thucydides on, 207–8

  weights and measures, 116, 204

  Weingast, Barry, 10, 116, 125, 135, 310

  welfare, 115, 252

  wheat, 12, 27, 29

  wheat wages, 91, 93, 94t, 95, 96t, 97–98

  Xenophon, 223, 239, 248, 287, 290; Anabasis, 228; Memorabilia, 113; Revenues, 248

  Xerxes, 76, 77

  Zancle-Messana, 176, 185

  Zimmern, Alfred, 76

 

 

 


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