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Question
What did the Athenian assembly choose to do with the windfall from the 483 BC Laurion silver discovery, and what was the immediate consequence?
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Build 200 trireme warships; these proved decisive against Persia at the Battle of Salamis in 480 BC
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Convert the silver into grain reserves; Athens had experienced a famine the previous decade
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Distribute 10 drachmas to every citizen; this funded a building programme including the Parthenon
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Lend the silver to allied city-states; this created a network of financial dependents across the Aegean
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