That is debatable because it can be argued that Athenian women led much more limited lives than Spartan women. However, for men, it may have been better in Athens because it was within Athens (during the Classical Period) that art, philosophy, literature and democracy flourished.
In 1970, President Nixon tried to break the stalemate in the peace process by pulling U.S. forces out of Cambodia.
Captain John Smith saved the colony by making a rule that anyone who didn't work, didn't eat. This forced the colonists to plant food and build shelters and fences to protect themselves from attacks. He also helped to maintain the peace between the Algonquian Indians.
Most scholars today believe that Jefferson derived the most famous ideas in the Declaration of Independence from the writings of English philosopher John Locke. Locke wrote his Second Treatise of Government in 1689 at the time of England's Glorious Revolution, which overthrew the rule of James II.
