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Ancient Greece
Peloponnesian Wars
& Decline of Ancient
Greece
Athens vs. Sparta
Essential Standards
6.H.2 Understand the political, economic and/or social
significance of historical events, issues, individuals and cultural
groups.
6.G.1Understand geographic factors that influenced the
emergence, expansion and decline of civilizations, societies and
regions (i.e. Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas) over time.
6.E.1Understand how the physical environment and human
interaction affected the economic activities of various
civilizations, societies and regions.
Clarifying Objectives
 6.H.2.1 Explain how invasions, conquests and migrations affected
various civilizations, societies and regions (e.g., Mongol invasion,
The Crusades, the Peopling of the Americas and Alexander the
Great).
 6.G.1.1 Explain how the physical features and human
characteristics of a place influenced the development of
civilizations, societies and regions (e.g., location near rivers and
natural barriers, trading practices and spread of culture).
 6.G.1.2 Explain the factors that influenced the movement of people,
goods and ideas and the effects of that movement on societies and
regions over time (e.g., scarcity of resources, conquests, desire for
wealth, disease and trade).
Clarifying Objectives
6.E.1.2 Explain how quality of life is impacted by economic
choices of civilizations, societies and regions.
Essential Questions
 How did invasions between Athens & Sparta in the Greek
Peloponnesian War affect the Ancient Greek Civilization?
 How did the physical features & human characteristics prevent
Ancient Greece from uniting?
 What factor contributed to the movement of people (Greeks) in
the Peloponnesian War?
 What was the long-term affect of the Peloponnesian War?
 How did the economic choices of the Athenian attack of Sicily
affect athenian’s quality of life?
EOG Questions
Athens & Sparta
 Athens & Sparta were
the 2 largest Greek city
states in Ancient Greece
 Before the GrecoPersian wars Athens &
Sparta had fought for
hundreds of years
 They banned together
against the Persians to
defeat them
Athens & Sparta
 The Athenian Navy & the Spartan Army defeated Xerxes to end the
Greco-Persian Wars
 After the Greco-Persian Wars , all was good with Athens & Sparta
Athens Gets Greedy
After the Greco-Persian war instead of getting rid of
their powerful Navy & spending the money on other things
Leader of Athens saw his opportunity
The factor that motivated him moving to other places
was CONQUEST
Essential Questions
 Get with a partner and answer….
 What factor contributed to the movement of people
(Greeks) in the Peloponnesian War?
Delian League
• Pericles starts
the Delian League
• Delian League was
a group of city
states that gave
money & men to
Athens for
protection from
Ancient Persia
• They would receive
protection from a
powerful NAVY
Athens Gets Greedy
 With his great Navy
Athenian leader
Pericles starts sailing
around and making
smaller Greek city
states pay to have
Athens protect them
 Pericles of Athens
knows that the Persians
will no longer attack
but he tells other city
states that they will
Athens Gets Greedy
 The smaller city states agree to pay Athens for Naval protection
 He goes around convincing the Greek city states that Persia will again attack
and they will need protection
 Athens becomes really, really, really rich from all the money they are paid to
protect the rest of Greece
Pericles Rebuilds Athens
With the money Pericles rebuilds Athens into the
richest most luxurious city in all of Ancient Greece
He rebuilds the Parthenon and other temples and
makes Athens a center of commerce & trade
Peloponnesian League (Sparta)
Spartans had their own military
league
Spartans league was called the
Peloponnesian League
They did the same thing for Sparta
they would pay Sparta for
protection
Switching Teams
o The Spartans problem
with Athens was that
they were stealing city
states that were in the
Peloponnesian League
and making them join
the Delian League
o This was taking away
from Sparta & adding
to Athens
Megara
 Athens went into to Megara & took it for themselves
 Spartans had had enough
 Spartans fought the Athenians for Megara
 Neither side could gain control so they finally signed a peace treaty
30 Years Peace Treaty
 Athens & Sparta
signed a 30 years
peace treaty with
the two sides
agreeing not to
attack each other
for 30 years
 Athens disobeyed
this treaty &
attacked Spartan
lands again
 Athens began
attacking everyone
else as well
Athens makes many Enemies
 Athens not only attacked
Spartan lands they began
attacking other non-Greek
lands as well
 Their biggest mistake was
making enemies with Macedon
Peloponnesian War Begins
• Sparta had finally
had enough and the
Peloponnesian War
begins
• The Peloponnesian
League declares war
on the Delian League
• Sparta & Athens begin
to fight constantly
Plague Pericles Dies
• In the first year of the
Peloponnesian War a
plague swept through
Athens killing over
30,000 Athenians
• This included their great
leader Pericles
Athens makes Bad Decisions
Many men wanted to lead Athens
Different men would come to power & make poor
decision after poor decision
The worst decision may have been trying to take Sicily
Taking Sicily
 Sicily was a little
island in the
Mediterranean Sea
which is now part of
Italy
 The Athenians wanted
that Sicily
 They tried to take it
but kept losing ship
after ship
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Athenian Quality of Life
• The poor decisions of the
Athenians attack on
Sicily affect the QUALITY
OF LIFE for their citizens
• They spent so much money
on the ships to attack
Sicily that there was no
more money for the
Athenian citizens
• Athenian citizens
became very poor
Essential Questions
Get with a partner and answer….
How did the economic choices of the Athenian attack
of sicily affect athenian’s quality of life?
Athens Surrenders to Sparta
 Athens had lost
almost their entire
Navy trying to take
Sicily
 The Athenians after
making poor decision
after poor decision
finally surrendered
to Sparta
Weakening Each Other
o Sparta didn’t control Ancient
Greece for long
o The Peloponnesian War had
WEAKENED both sides (Athens
& Sparta) so much that it
left the door wide open
o With hardly any Navy or
Army forces anymore Greece
was in trouble
Macedon
 With both Athens & Sparta
weakened by each other
 King Phillip of Macedon
rode in and CONQORED
Ancient Greece
 In the end the LONG TERM
AFFECT of the
Peloponnesian War was the
DECLINE OF ANCIENT GREECE
Essential Questions
o Get with a partner and answer….
o How did invasions between Athens
& Sparta in the Greek
Peloponnesian War affect the
Ancient Greek Civilization?
o What was the long-term affect of
the Peloponnesian War?
Important Points
 6.H.2.1 (Invasions,
Conquests, Migrations)
Athens wanted to Conquer
the rest of Greece and
make them join their
Delian League
 6.G.1.1 (Affect of Physical
Features) Physical
Features prevented
Ancient Greek city states
from PERMINATLY BANDING
TOGETHER
 6.G.1.2 (Factors of
Migration/Movement)
Athenians were willing to
move to other parts of
Greece to CONQUOR them
 6.E.1.2 (Quality of Life)
Poor ECONOMIC choices by
the Athenians left their
people poor