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World History
Chapter 4
The Rise of Ancient Greece
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Chapter 4, Section 1, Beginnings
Overview
The Aegean Area
 Aegean Civilizations
 Poets and Heroes
 A Family of Deities
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Objectives
Understand how being close to the sea
made the Greeks seafarers
 Know where and how the early
civilizations of Greece developed
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Did You Know?
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One of the adventures in Homer’s
“Odyssey” involved a one-eyed giant—
called a Cyclops—who shut Odysseus in
his cave and blocked the entrance with a
huge rock. Odysseus made the Cyclops
drunk, blinded him by driving a burning
stake into his eye while he slept, and
escaped by clinging to the belly of a
sheep let out to pasture.
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The Aegean Area
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Greece is made up largely of low-lying rugged mountains
and a long, indented coastline; the mountains both
protected and isolated Ancient Greeks on the mainland,
who never united under one government.
The Greeks did speak one language and had the same
religion
Many Greeks earned their livings on the sea; the mild
climate allowed Greeks to spend much of their time
outdoors
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The Aegean Area
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Greeks turned to become fishers, traders and
pirates.
The climate allowed people to spend time
outdoors, assembling for meetings and
performing plays.
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Aegean Civilizations
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The Minoans
Greek myth referred to the existence of an early
civilization on the island of Crete; archaeologists
have since unearthed remains of this Minoan
civilization, which flourished from about 2500 to
1450 B.C. The Minoans were the first in the
Aegean Region.
British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans who
discovered Minoan remains about 1900 A.D.
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The Minoans (cont)
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The Minoan civilization, which earned its living from
sea trade, reached its peak around 1600 B.C.; it
collapsed about 250 years later.
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Both men and women curled their hair, bedecked themselves
with gold jewelry, set off narrow waists with wide metal belts.
Minoan woman enjoyed a higher status than many other
civilizations.
Minoan ships help keep the seas free from pirates
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The Minoans (cont)
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Minoan ships dominated the Mediterranean
Ships protected coast—no need for walls
The destruction or collapse of the Minoan
civilization believed by a tidal wave after an
earthquake or from attack from
Mycenaeans
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Aegean Civilizations
The
Mycenaeans
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The Mycenaeans, from Indo-European peoples of
central Asia, began moving from their homeland
around 2000 B.C.
When they entered the Balkan Peninsula, the
Mycenaeans intermarried with local people,
known as the Hellenes, and set up a group of
kingdoms.
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The Mycenaeans (con’t)
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The palaces in the center of Mycenae served
as government offices
The Mycenaeans adopted many Minoan
cultural elements: metalworking,
shipbuilding, and navagation
Each kingdom created centered around a
hilltop. Stone walls circled the fortress.
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The Mycenaeans (cont)
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Made swords of bronze
Kept good records and collected taxes based on
wealth
Wheat
 Livestock
 Honey
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The Mycenaeans and the Dorians
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By the mid-1400s B.C.,the Mycenaeans had
conquered the Minoans and controlled the
Aegean area
Soon after 1100 B.C., however, the Greekspeaking Dorians conquered Greece from
the North
Myceneaen walls weakened by civil war
 Dorians had iron weapons
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The Mycenaeans, Dorians, and
Ionians
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Historians call the next 300 years of Greek history a “dark age”
because overseas trade stopped, people lost skills, and poverty
increased.
Large numbers of Greeks flee the Dorian influence and go to
Aegean islands and across the Aegean Sea to Asian Minor and a
place called Ionia.
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The Mycenaeans, Dorians, and
Ionians
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By 750 B.C. the Ionians reintroduced
culture, crafts and skills to Greece…mostly
Mycenaean.
New Greek culture called Hellenic
flourished from 700s until 336 B.C.
Ionians introduce Phoenician alphabet and
other cultural elements in Ionia and their
former homeland.
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The Mycenaeans, Dorians, and
Ionians
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The Phoenician alphabet limits Greek
reading and writing to just 24 letters and
made learning simpler.
The Dorian “Dark Ages” went away and a
new Greek civilization formed from mostly
Mycenaean elements.
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Poets and Heroes
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During “Dark Ages”, bards—singing story
tellers—kept Mycenaean traditions alive
Now able to write, Greeks began to record bard
stories
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The Iliad and the Odyssey
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According to tradition, an eighth-century B.C.
blind poet named Homer composed the two
most famous Greek epics
“Iliad” and the “Odyssey”
 Set during and after the legendary Trojan War in the
mid-1200s B.C.
 Mycenaeans fought Trojans mid 1200s A.D.
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Chapter 4, Section 2, The Polis
 Greek
Colonies and
Trade
 The Typical Polis
 Political and Social
Change
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Objectives
 Know
how economic prosperity
brought significant political and
social changes to the Greek citystates
 Understand that the Greeks
founded colonies throughout the
area of the Mediterranean and
Black Seas
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Places to Locate
 Athens
 Sparta
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The Typical Polis
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A typical polis included a city and the
surrounding villages, fields, and
orchards; on the top of the acropolis in
the center of the city stood the temple
of the local deity, and at the foot of the
acropolis citizens gathered to carry out
public affairs—the agora.
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Objectives
 Know
the difference between
the values, cultures, and
achievements represented by
Sparta and those represented
by Athens
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People to Know
Draco
Solon
Peisistratus
Cleisthenes
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Places to Locate
 Peloponnesus
 Attica
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Role of Women
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Married at age 19, not 14 (Greece)
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Increased likelihood of healthy baby
More rights accorded Spartan women
Could shop marketplace
 Attend dinners with non-family members
 Own property in their names
 Express opinions in public
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Could not participate in polis government
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Sparta’s Government
• There were two Spartan
kings—an oligarchy
• Didn’t have much power
• Primarily religious and
military leadership
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Sparta’s Government
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The Assembly was made up of all males over 20 and
passed laws and made decisions on war and peace.
Each year, the Assembly elected five ephors who could
veto laws and performed certain administration
functions.
A Council of Elders, 28 men over 60, proposed laws to
Assembly and served as a supreme court.
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Result of Militarism
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Succeeded in holding power over helots for 250
years
Suspicious of new ideas and lagged behind
other cities in business
Much poorer
Lagged in intellectual development
Exceptional athletes and best protector of
Greece
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Athens
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a peninsula of central Greece
named Attica, Mycenaean
descendants established the citystate of Athens. The polis was
named after the goddess, Athena
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Athens
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Initially, non-landowning citizens could not participate in
Athens’s Assembly.
Unlike Sparta, Athens gradually expanded its definition of
citizenship to include more people
Eventually, all free men could be members of the Assembly
regardless of what class they belonged to, even the metics—
foreign-born citizens
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Athens
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The political change that permitted more people to
participate in government reduced much of the friction
between social classes.
Four successive leaders brought changes
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Draco’s Law Code
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Draco issued an improved code of written laws
Aristocrats could no longer dictate what was legal.
 Some of his laws were harsh: e.g.,death for stealing
cabbage.
 Over time, the term “draconian” has come to mean
something cruel and severe.
Positive side—the laws were written down and
aristocrats could no langer take advantage
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Solon’s Reforms
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Leader of Athens 594 B.C.
Cancelled all debts and freed debtors from
slavery
Solon improved economic conditions, promoted
trade, fostered industry, and introduced political
reforms that moved Athens toward democracy
Ordered fathers to teach sons a trade
 Established 2-house government for political
equality
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Radical Reformers
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Peistratus (pih*SIHS*truh*tuhs)
divided large estates among landless farmers
 extended citizenship to men who did not own land
 offered the poor loans and jobs.
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Radical Reformers
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Cleisthenes came to power in 508 B.C.
Introduced laws that established democracy
 Sought to
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End local rivalries
 Break power of aristocracy
 Extend guarantees to more citizens
 Reorganize central government
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Athenian Democracy
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Cleisthenes, the fourth leader to help
reform Athens, established democracy for
Athens; under Cleisthenes’ constitution,
the Assembly won increased powers and
fully emerged as the major political body.
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Athenian Democracy
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All citizens could become a member of the Assembly.
The Assembly served as a supreme court and appointed
generals to run the military.
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Athenian Democracy
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Each year in a lottery, Athenian citizens chose members
of the Council of 500, who carried out daily
government business.
 Citizens favored a lottery believing all citizens were
capable of holding office.
 Elections, in their view, would unfavorably favor the
rich who had the advantage fame and training in
public speaking.
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Athenian Democracy
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Although only 20 percent of Athenians were
citizens, ancient Athens laid the foundation for
the Western concept of democratic government.
Because Athens expected every citizen to hold
public office at some time in his life, it required
Athenian citizens to educate their sons; girls
rarely received a formal education.
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Athenian Democracy
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Jury system decided court cases
From 201 to 1001 members
 The more jurors, the less likelihood that they would
be bribed, threatened, or show prejudice
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Cleisthenes reforms lasted 200 years
Foundation for Western concept of democracy
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Athenian Education
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Athenian men educated because they were
expected to hold public office
Women rarely educated
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Household duties—baking, weaving, etc.
Private tutors educated wealthy boys
Agora was location for much education
Boys entered school at 7, graduate at 18
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Athenian Education
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Main textbooks were Iliad and Odyssey
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Knew them by heart
Arithmetic, drawing, geometry, art, music
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Discussion: Sparta vs Athens
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Sparta represented:
 The military
 Monarchy
 Severe, simple style of living
Athens represented:
 The arts
 Democracy
Which values do you appreciate most? Given the
times, which values would provide for more
security, foreign and domestic, for the given citystates.
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Chapter 4, section 4
War, Glory, and Decline
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The Persian Wars
The Golden Age of Athens
The Peloponnesian Wars
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People to Meet
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Darius I
Xerxes
Themistocles
Leonidas
Pericles
Aspasia
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The Persian Wars
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In 546 B.C., Persia, led by Cyrus II, conquered
the Greek city-states in Ionia
Ionians disliked them
 Considered them to be barbarians
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Ionians revolted against the Persians
Athens and others helped, but Darius and his
Persians defeated them
Darius decided to punish the Greeks
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Marathon
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Darius sent his fleet directly across the Aegean Sea
north of Athens.
The Athenians were outnumbered 20,000 to 10,000.
The Persians decided to pack up and attack Athens
directly, but at the moment of loading their ships back
up, the Athenians attacked.
As the Persian army was standing in knee deep water
waiting to board the ships, the Athenians attacked
downhill and it was a rout—Persians lost 6,400 men;
Athenians lost 192 men.
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Salamis
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The Persians returned 10 years later and leading
the army was Xerxes, son of Darius with
200,000 soldiers. Off shore supply ships
accompanied them.
The Greeks faced the Persians again, this time
under Spartan leadership
The Oracle at Delphi, a few years earlier, had
said Greece would be shielded by a wooden wall
Athenian general Themistocles believed that
meant ships
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Salamis
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To challenge the Persians at sea, a delaying action had
to be established
The Greek army set up a delaying action on land, led by
King Leonidas of Sparta; knowing that a traitor had
showed the Persians a way to attack the Greeks and
realizing that he would soon be surrounded, Leonidas
neverthelsss stayed to face his death.
The Athenians, led by Leonidas, held off the Persians
for three days with his 7,000 Athenian soldiers.
Leonidas sent most of the soldiers to escape to fight
another day but put in a delaying action using 300
Spartans
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Thermopylae—The Mountain Pass
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The site where King Leonidas chose to make his
stand.
The pass was narrow allowing the Greeks to
have the advantage against the large force of the
Persians.
King Leonidas chose to fight to the death—as
their polis law called for
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Themistocles—The Battle Near the
Island of Salamis
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The delaying action by King Leonidas allowed another
spartan general, Themistocles, to defeat the Persians in
the Salamis Strait.
He destroyed almost the entire Persian fleet near the
island of Salamis.
Themistocles judged his faster, smaller ships could
defeat the Persians in the narrow Strait of Salamis
After the battle of the Island of Salamis, the Persians
returned to Asia Minor for good, and Athens emerged
a powerful and self-confident city-state.
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The Golden Age of Athens
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The period 461 B.C. to 429 B.C. was the period
most of the Greek achievements in the arts and
sciences took place in Athens during this time.
The Athenian general Pericles rebuilt Athens
into the most beautiful city in Greece; its most
famous structure, the Parthenon, still stands.
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Athenian Daily Life
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Athenian men usually worked in the morning as
farmers, artisans, and merchants, before
attending the Assembly or exercising in the
gymnasium; slaves generally did the heavy work
in craft production and mining, while women
worked at home or in the market.
Athenians kept their homes simple but their
public buildings were very lavish.
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Athenian Daily Life
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Athenian house contained two main rooms with
several smaller ones around a central courtyard.
The dining room for entertaining and frequently
had couches. Athenian wives would not join
their husbands unless there were no guests.
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Work for the Men and Women
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Usually worked in the morning then went to the
gymnasium in the afternoon.
Slaves did the heavy work—one third of the
population.
Women spent making time at home, cooking and
making wool cloth.
Upper class Athenian men spent time in the
symposium—basically a drinking session followed by a
banquet. Women were not allowed. The discussed
literature, philosophy, and public issues.
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Aspasia
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As some freedom became allowed for some
classes of women, she invited women into her
home and gave them advice on home,
education, and how to gain more freedom.
Her recommendations to women for more
responsibility in society led to charges against
her
She was charged with “impiety” (disloyalty to
the gods) but was acquitted.
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The Peloponnesian War
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With the ongoing threat of the Persians, Athens
formed the Delian league of city-states for
protection…Sparta would not participate.
The treasury was kept on the sacred island of
Delos.
The League freed the Ionians from Persian rule,
cleared the seas of pirates, and fostered
(promoted and helped) trade.
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The Athenian Empire
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Athens transformed the Delian League into an
Athenian empire.
Athens began to dominate other city-states
The empire required the use of the same coins
and made other changes that were for all citystates to adopt
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The Conflict
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The Peloponnesian War lasted from 431 B.C. to 404
B.C.
Sparta formed an alliance against Athens.
They didn’t have a navy but used money the Persians
gave them for giving Ionia back to the Persians to buy
ships and prep for war.
The Spartan-led alliance eventually destroyed the
Athenian fleet and laid siege to Athens itself. The
Athenians surrendered in 404 B.C.
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The Conflict
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Athens developed many problems
A disease—probably typhus--killed a third of its
population
 Pericles died from the disease
 Athens couldn’t come to a decision about making
peace with Sparta
 Athenian allies switched sides and joined the
Spartans
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Effects of the War
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The Peloponnesian War brought disaster to the
Greek city-states, both victors and vanquished
Populations declined, much land was destroyed,
and unemployment caused many men to
become hired soldiers in the Persian army
The Greeks also lost faith in democracy.
The length of the war caused people to think
only of making money.
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Effects of the War
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Feelings between aristocrats and commoners
became more strained. People began to look
down on free political discussion.
Rulers came and went. City-states were unable
to join together for ultimate power. Then came
the Macedonians—and someone called
Alexander the Great
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