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... landowning families. These very rich families often gained political power after serving in a king’s military cavalry. Later, as trade expanded, a new class of wealthy merchants and artisans emerged in some cities. When these groups became dissatisfied with aristocratic rule, they sometimes took pow ...
... landowning families. These very rich families often gained political power after serving in a king’s military cavalry. Later, as trade expanded, a new class of wealthy merchants and artisans emerged in some cities. When these groups became dissatisfied with aristocratic rule, they sometimes took pow ...
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... A. The Persian Wars 1. Around 499 B.C. Persia had conquered all of North Africa and soon captured the Greek Colonies in Asia Minor. 2. In 490 the Persian King Darius I turned towards Athens, because Athens had tried to help the colonies. 3. The Athenians defeat the Persians on the plain of Marathon. ...
... A. The Persian Wars 1. Around 499 B.C. Persia had conquered all of North Africa and soon captured the Greek Colonies in Asia Minor. 2. In 490 the Persian King Darius I turned towards Athens, because Athens had tried to help the colonies. 3. The Athenians defeat the Persians on the plain of Marathon. ...
Ch 3 PPt - Persians and Greeks
... rebels and their supporters in the Greek mainland. 2. Persian War with Athens: Victorious, democratic, and imperial: Against all odds, Athens led a coalition of Greek citystates to victory in land and sea engagements in 490 and 480 B.C.E. - This was a source of great pride for Athenian citizens who ...
... rebels and their supporters in the Greek mainland. 2. Persian War with Athens: Victorious, democratic, and imperial: Against all odds, Athens led a coalition of Greek citystates to victory in land and sea engagements in 490 and 480 B.C.E. - This was a source of great pride for Athenian citizens who ...
Age of Colonization
... Answer! The Spartans felt compelled to make the army the primary focus of their society because: a) ...
... Answer! The Spartans felt compelled to make the army the primary focus of their society because: a) ...
The Greek Experience - tms-ancient
... F. From Polis to Monarchy (404–323 B.C.E.) 1. When the Peloponnesian War ended, Sparta attempted to create a Greek empire. The Spartan effort failed, leaving the Greek states in disarray. 2. Philip II, king of Macedonia, took advantage of this situation. 3. Philip conquered Greece and united the Gre ...
... F. From Polis to Monarchy (404–323 B.C.E.) 1. When the Peloponnesian War ended, Sparta attempted to create a Greek empire. The Spartan effort failed, leaving the Greek states in disarray. 2. Philip II, king of Macedonia, took advantage of this situation. 3. Philip conquered Greece and united the Gre ...
Greece_ACIV_V2_tg (Page 1)
... a common language, religion and ethnic identity, the Greek city-states formed alliances to fight off much stronger foreign powers. Considered to be the birthplace of democracy, scientific reason and the ethos of individualism, ancient Greece is credited with more influence in the western world than ...
... a common language, religion and ethnic identity, the Greek city-states formed alliances to fight off much stronger foreign powers. Considered to be the birthplace of democracy, scientific reason and the ethos of individualism, ancient Greece is credited with more influence in the western world than ...
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... True or False? If it is false, rewrite the statement to make it true. 1. To keep people from rebelling, Cyrus the Great paid off the people he concurred. ___________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ...
... True or False? If it is false, rewrite the statement to make it true. 1. To keep people from rebelling, Cyrus the Great paid off the people he concurred. ___________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ...
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... city and flees. • Alcibiades is brought back to defeat Sparta. • He won many victories, but could not change tide of war • 404 B.C. Athens surrenders • Alcibiades is murdered by Sparta ...
... city and flees. • Alcibiades is brought back to defeat Sparta. • He won many victories, but could not change tide of war • 404 B.C. Athens surrenders • Alcibiades is murdered by Sparta ...
Chapter 1 Powerpoint_MWH
... develop and ultimately influence us today’s. Note: Greek tyrants, were rulers who seized power by force and were not subject to the law ...
... develop and ultimately influence us today’s. Note: Greek tyrants, were rulers who seized power by force and were not subject to the law ...
classplan_Herodotus_Session2
... o 1st 6 books end with the defeat of the Persians in 490 BC at the Battle of Marathon = 1st setback to their imperial progress. o last 3 books of = Xerxes ten years later to avenge Marathon and absorb Greece. o key battles: Thermopole (Spartans), Salimis (Athenians, Thermistocles’ smarts and technol ...
... o 1st 6 books end with the defeat of the Persians in 490 BC at the Battle of Marathon = 1st setback to their imperial progress. o last 3 books of = Xerxes ten years later to avenge Marathon and absorb Greece. o key battles: Thermopole (Spartans), Salimis (Athenians, Thermistocles’ smarts and technol ...
Chronology of Athenian Imperialism
... 430s series of crises brought Delian and Peloponnesian Leagues into conflict • Sparta wants decisive hoplite battle to finish the war quickly – besiege Athens for the summer, go home winter ...
... 430s series of crises brought Delian and Peloponnesian Leagues into conflict • Sparta wants decisive hoplite battle to finish the war quickly – besiege Athens for the summer, go home winter ...
collection of Classical Greek Primary Sources
... THE ATHENIANS AND THE SPARTANS: In ancient Greece, city-states competed with one another for political and military control. The two most powerful city-states, Athens and Sparta, had much different cultures. In the following selection, the Athenian historian Thucydides contrasts the two cultures. Th ...
... THE ATHENIANS AND THE SPARTANS: In ancient Greece, city-states competed with one another for political and military control. The two most powerful city-states, Athens and Sparta, had much different cultures. In the following selection, the Athenian historian Thucydides contrasts the two cultures. Th ...
The Ancient Greece Pack
... Ancient Greece was a rich and impressive civilisation that continues to influence life today. The Greek Empire became powerful because its people were great warriors and great thinkers. They lived from 3000BC to 140BC, when they were finally conquered by the Romans. At the height of their power, the ...
... Ancient Greece was a rich and impressive civilisation that continues to influence life today. The Greek Empire became powerful because its people were great warriors and great thinkers. They lived from 3000BC to 140BC, when they were finally conquered by the Romans. At the height of their power, the ...
The Historian as Philosopher - Herodotus and the Strength of Freedom
... Helot shield-bearers. Sparta at this time could count on scant support from estranged allies, and once again the Spartans were restrained from full participation in the defence of Greece by religious prohibitions. This was therefore to be an advance guard until the whole Spartan army could be used, ...
... Helot shield-bearers. Sparta at this time could count on scant support from estranged allies, and once again the Spartans were restrained from full participation in the defence of Greece by religious prohibitions. This was therefore to be an advance guard until the whole Spartan army could be used, ...
Athens and the Fall of the City
... • Slaves were the lowest of the social classes – Most Athenian households owned slaves ...
... • Slaves were the lowest of the social classes – Most Athenian households owned slaves ...
PDF sample
... comes an indented comment by Dillon and Garland: once again this is not the ancient source itself but a brief introduction to the passage, intended to help elucidate its main features. In a larger font size, under this comment, comes the ancient source itself. ...
... comes an indented comment by Dillon and Garland: once again this is not the ancient source itself but a brief introduction to the passage, intended to help elucidate its main features. In a larger font size, under this comment, comes the ancient source itself. ...
File - Mr. C at Hamilton
... by two main powers: democratic Athens and the military oligarchy of Sparta. These city-states were very different. Sparta was traditionally the great land power of the Greek world and controlled many neighboring territories whose populations were tied to the land as slaves. Athens' power was b ...
... by two main powers: democratic Athens and the military oligarchy of Sparta. These city-states were very different. Sparta was traditionally the great land power of the Greek world and controlled many neighboring territories whose populations were tied to the land as slaves. Athens' power was b ...
Greece Webquest Reading Material
... During the golden age of Greece the term "Greece" was not yet in use. The area called Greece today was dotted with various city-states who had no desire to be united into a larger country. As their name implies, city-states were large areas of land whose inhabitants fell under the rule of the city i ...
... During the golden age of Greece the term "Greece" was not yet in use. The area called Greece today was dotted with various city-states who had no desire to be united into a larger country. As their name implies, city-states were large areas of land whose inhabitants fell under the rule of the city i ...
Ch. 5: Dawn of the Empires The Meaning of Empire
... Revolt of Greek colonists in Asia Minor prompted Persian attack on Athens 10,000 man Greek army defeats 48,000 man Persian army at Marathon (490 B.C.E.] Greek key was hoplite soldiers organized into tightly-knit phalanxes, symbolic of citizen unity of city-state ...
... Revolt of Greek colonists in Asia Minor prompted Persian attack on Athens 10,000 man Greek army defeats 48,000 man Persian army at Marathon (490 B.C.E.] Greek key was hoplite soldiers organized into tightly-knit phalanxes, symbolic of citizen unity of city-state ...
Classical_Greece_and_the_Hellenistic_Period
... The Classical Ideal Classical period (479-323 B.C.E.) Search for order and control – “Nothing too much” ...
... The Classical Ideal Classical period (479-323 B.C.E.) Search for order and control – “Nothing too much” ...
Athens vs Spartan society DBQ
... had were differed from those of the women in Athens. This is because the men were always out either training for war, or fighting a war. Spartan women had greater freedom than Athenian women had. Different from Athens, Spartan women could own land just like the men could. In fact, they owned more th ...
... had were differed from those of the women in Athens. This is because the men were always out either training for war, or fighting a war. Spartan women had greater freedom than Athenian women had. Different from Athens, Spartan women could own land just like the men could. In fact, they owned more th ...
Athens v. Sparta
... In ancient Sparta the soldiers were the highest class. The soldier-citizens of Sparta owned all the land and did most of the fighting, but none of the work. There was a middle class called freemen, who were not citizens of Sparta but lived there and carried on the trade and industry the soldier-citi ...
... In ancient Sparta the soldiers were the highest class. The soldier-citizens of Sparta owned all the land and did most of the fighting, but none of the work. There was a middle class called freemen, who were not citizens of Sparta but lived there and carried on the trade and industry the soldier-citi ...
Ancient Greek warfare
The Greek 'Dark Age' drew to a close as a significant increase in population allowed urbanized culture to be restored, and the rise of the city-states (Poleis). These developments ushered in the Archaic period (800-480 BC). They also restored the capability of organized warfare between these Poleis (as opposed to small-scale raids to acquire livestock and grain, for example). The fractious nature of Ancient Greek society seems to have made continuous conflict on this larger scale inevitable.Concomitant with the rise of the city-state was the evolution of a new way of warfare - the hoplite phalanx. When exactly the phalanx developed is uncertain, but it is thought to have been developed by the Spartans. The chigi vase, dated to around 650 BC, is the earliest depiction of a hoplite in full battle array. The hoplite was a well-armed and armored citizen-soldier primarily drawn from the middle classes. Every man had to serve at least two years in the army. Fighting in the tight phalanx formation maximised the effectiveness of his armor, large shield and long spear, presenting a wall of armor and spearpoints to the enemy. They were a force to be reckoned with.With this evolution in warfare, battles seem to have consisted mostly of the clash of hoplite phalanxes from the city-states in conflict. Since the soldiers were citizens with other occupations, warfare was limited in distance, season and scale. Neither side could afford heavy casualties or sustained campaigns, so conflicts seem to have been resolved by a single set-piece battle.The scale and scope of warfare in Ancient Greece changed dramatically as a result of the Greco-Persian Wars. To fight the enormous armies of the Achaemenid Empire was effectively beyond the capabilities of a single city-state. The eventual triumph of the Greeks was achieved by alliances of many city-states (the exact composition changing over time), allowing the pooling of resources and division of labour. Although alliances between city states occurred before this time, nothing on this scale had been seen before. The rise of Athens and Sparta as pre-eminent powers during this conflict led directly to the Peloponnesian War, which saw further development of the nature of warfare, strategy and tactics. Fought between leagues of cities dominated by Athens and Sparta, the increased manpower and financial resources increased the scale, and allowed the diversification of warfare. Set-piece battles during the Peloponnesian war proved indecisive and instead there was increased reliance on attritionary strategies, naval battle and blockades and sieges. These changes greatly increased the number of casualties and the disruption of Greek society.Following the eventual defeat of the Athenians in 404 BC, and the disbandment of the Athenian-dominated Delian League, Ancient Greece fell under the hegemony of Sparta. However, it was soon apparent that the hegemony was unstable, and the Persian Empire sponsored a rebellion by the combined powers of Athens, Thebes, Corinth and Argos, resulting in the Corinthian War (395-387 BC). After largely inconclusive campaigning, the war was decided when the Persians switched to supporting the Spartans, in return for the cities of Ionia and Spartan non-interference in Asia Minor. This brought the rebels to terms, and restored the Spartan hegemony on a more stable footing. The Spartan hegemony would last another 16 years, until, at the Battle of Leuctra (371) the Spartans were decisively defeated by the Theban general Epaminondas.In the aftermath of this, the Thebans acted with alacrity to establish a hegemony of their own over Greece. However, Thebes lacked sufficient manpower and resources, and became overstretched in attempting to impose itself on the rest of Greece. Following the death of Epaminondas and loss of manpower at the Battle of Mantinea, the Theban hegemony ceased. Indeed, the losses in the ten years of the Theban hegemony left all the Greek city-states weakened and divided. As such, the city-states of southern Greece would shortly afterwards be powerless to resist the rise of the Macedonian kingdom in the north. With revolutionary tactics, King Phillip II brought most of Greece under his sway, paving the way for the conquest of ""the known world"" by his son Alexander the Great. The rise of the Macedonian Kingdom is generally taken to signal the end of the Greek Classical period, and certainly marked the end of the distinctive hoplite battle in Ancient Greece.