Themistocles: Vice Presidential Candidate

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Themistocles – Vice Presidential Candidate (Evan Barr)
• What is the most important way trade benefits Athens?
• Being that you have a lot of support from lower class Athenians and not so much from Athenians of nobility, how will you change to receive equal support from both parties?

Pericles – Vice Presidential Candidate
• What was your reasoning behind why you convinced the rural population into moving in the city, which caused sanitation issues and many to become displaced?
• How would your administration as vice president respond to our economy when it has to do with international sale and trade?

Archimedes – Vice Presidential Candidate (Nicholas Benavides)
• How will you utilize your aptitudes in science and mathematics to create and

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