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over time it became a very satisfactory device
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and helps explain again the health of Athenian agriculture
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when we see it in the fifth century and later.
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Another thing that he did
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--I'm going to talk about citizenship for a moment;
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the Greek poleis were very jealous of their citizenship.
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Their theory of the polis
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was that all citizens were the descendants
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of the original founders of the city.
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In other words,
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everybody in Athens
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was a relative of some kind.