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PELOPONNESIAN WAR – INFORMATION SHEET MS. ANDERSON – SOCIAL STUDIES 10 You are responsible for this sheet. If you misplace it, you will NOT be given a new one. You must go to the wikispace and print off your own copy. -‐ Ms. A Name: _______________________ MAIN IDEAS -‐ Athens and Sparta and their allies fought a war over Athens’ growing power. -‐ Government Athens lost the Peloponnesian War. -‐ Government More than 25 years of war weakened all of the Greek citystates. WHY THE WAR STARTED THUCYDIDES – A veteran of the Peloponnesian War general who recorded the events of the war in a massive, mulD-‐volume text. QUESTION -‐ Following the Greek victory in the Persian War, Athens was in possession of a powerful navy the controlled their empire in the Aegean Sea. This empire was lead by Pericles. -‐ Some city-‐states feared Athens’s grab for power and presDge (Sparta in parDcular). -‐ Athens lead other city-‐states in an alliance known as the Delian League. DefiniDon page 145: ______________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________. -‐ Sparta headed Peloponnesian League that opposed the Delian League. Many of its city-‐states were located on Peloponnesus -‐ Sparta declared war on Athens in 431 B.C.; began Peloponnesian War. According to the video, and the textbook (pg 145), what were the main causes of tension between Athens and Sparta in the years leading up to the Peloponnesian War? STRATEGIES OF WAR -‐ Sparta had beXer land forces and city was safe from sea aXack. -‐ Athens had beXer navy, could aXack Sparta's allies from sea. -‐ Sparta captured land around Athens’s, destroyed crops, food supply -‐ Athens's strategy was to avoid land baXles, rely on sea power -‐ Pericles persuaded Athens to let Sparta destroy crops and brought people inside city walls. Food was brought into the city-‐state by sea. Pericles thought that, with the wall surrounding the city and giving a safe passage to the sea, that Athens was immune from aXack. PERICLES – The Athenian leader at the Dme of the Peloponnesian War. He was a master of persuasive speaking, and the brains behind Athens’s naval empire. QUESTION Why was Pericles’s defensive strategy a massive failure of Athens? (see video and textbook, pg 146) Pericles’s wall of Athens – Fortress or prison? Discuss. THE AFTERMATH LESSON SUMMARY • Peloponnesian War lasted over 27 years • CiDes, crops were destroyed; thousands of Greeks died • All the Greek city-‐states suffered economic, military losses • King Philip II of Macedon came to power in 359 B.C. -‐ Macedon was kingdom north of Greek city-‐ states -‐ Philip planned empire, looked south to weakened Greek city-‐states • The wealth, presDge, policies, and power of Athens caused resentment among other city-‐ states. • A plague that killed many Athenians helped Sparta defeat Athens. • The Peloponnesian War weakened all of the Greek city-‐states for 50 years. WHY IT MATTERS NOW… The Peloponnesian War shows that countries that wage war may lose power and presDge instead of gaining it. QUESTION Do you agree with the above statement? Can you think of another example from history where this might be true/false?
