Download Sovereignty - No country (or Gov`t) has the legal right to tell another

Sovereignty - No country (or Gov’t) has the legal right to tell another country (or
Gov’t) what to do.
1. Define Nation Building
2. Explain the Spartan Attempts at Nation Building
3. Explain American Attempts at Nation Building
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Persian Wars
a. Greeks win
i. Pick Perfect Terrain
1. Narrow the Front
Aftermath
a. Athens raises $$$ to fund a Greek Navy
b. Delian League
i. Designed to stop Persia from coming back
c. Athens uses Navy to create Athenian Empire
i. Establish Democracies in Delian League
ii. League cannot back out
iii. Money for navy used to beautify Athens
Peloponnesian War
a. Sparta and allies
i. Allies were the Peloponnesian League
ii. will fight Athens to free all Greek City States
b. Sparta Defeats Athens
i. Athens must surrender unconditionally
1. Must do whatever Sparta wants
a. No walls
b. No Navy
c. Must be an Oligarchy
i. 30 pro Spartan Athenians in charge
1. 30 tyrants
2. Does not possess the ability to fight back
ii. Sparta goes on campaign to established oligarchies in place of
Democracies in Athenian Empire
1. Treat conquered people horribly
2. Do not possess the ability to convince conquered people
to live like Spartans
a. Failed Nation Building
c. Aftermath
i. Thebes
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1. Allie of Sparta
2. Forms a Democracy
Sparta attacks Thebes
1. Instead of working with them
Thebes changes battle tactics
1. How they fight
a. Put their best against Spartans
i. Kill more Spartans
b. Slingers and Archers
c. Cavalry
Sparta does not change Tactics
1. Do not adapt to changes in warfare
a. Siege warfare of cities
b. Naval warfare
c. Slingers, Archers and cavalry
Sparta does not change culture
1. Needs soldiers because population has gone down
a. 30 years of war
b. Low birth rate
i. Soldiers must sneak out of Barracks to
procreate with wife
2. Does not change difficult training
a. Takes 17 years to make a Spartan soldier
Sparta loses because there are not enough Spartan soldiers to
make a difference