Socrates was charged of not honoring the gods of Athens and of corrupting the youth. He received the death sentence for<em> mora</em>l <em>corruption </em>and <em>impiety</em>. His refusal to escape was because:
1 - to flee would idicate a fear of death, which he didn't have.
2 - escaping would make his friends liable in law.
3 - this could cause him to break his "social contract" with the state, and he didn't want to harm the state.
This was the time when Persephone would be taken from Earth down to Hades. This also induced winter. When she returned, it would also return spring and summer.
The first battle between the Britain and the American colonists occurred at Lexington, Massachusetts.
The European nation that aspired to form an alliance with the powerful iroquois confederacy in 1754 was Great Britain. According to their vision, such alliance would allow them to be maintained until the colonists grew stronger. and could then achieve what they wanted.
