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Daily Life in Athens - Outlining
Agenda
• Review yesterday
• Independent Practice
• Wars, Wars, Wars
• Questions?
Expansion of Greece
I.
The Persian Wars
A. Darius and Xerxes
1. Darius – Persian leader who defeated Greeks in
Asia Minor, but lost to Athens in the Battle of
marathon.
2. Xerxes – Darius’ son. Led attack on Greece and
defeated the Spartans in the Battle of
Thermopylae.
3. Xerxes lost naval battle to Athens and was
defeated when Athens and Sparta united.
Expansion of Greece
B. Results
1. Persia continued to influence Greek affairs.
2. Sparta – unable to establish Greek unity
under its leadership.
3. Athens established the Delian League – an
alliance of 140 city-states that helped to build
Greek empire.
Brain Break!
 Stand up.
 Pick up your things and move to a different
seat – at least 10 feet from your current
seat.
 Sit back down.
Expansion of Greece
II. Pericles
A. Who?
1. General, statesman, orator (public speaker) who led
Greek empire from 461 to 429 B.C.
2. Served when Athens’ democracy was most
complete in history.
B. Accomplishments
1. Strengthened and extended Greek empire.
2. Built the Parthenon and Acropolis.
3. Established colonies of Athenian citizens.
4. Kept the Persians out of the Aegean Sea.
5. Established common system of weights and
measurements throughout Greece.
Expansion of Greece (cont.)
III. The Peloponnesian War
A. Begins in 431 BCE because Pericles could not unite Greece under
Athens.
B. Sparta’s stronger army invades Athens at the Attic peninsula.
Athens withdraws behind walls of the city.
C. Siege of Athens goes on for years without success – Athens able
to bring in supplies by ship.
D. Plague in Athens kills Pericles and many others.
E. 27 year war – with peace/battles in between (Syracuse)
F. Persians join Sparta and starves Athens – Athens surrenders in
404 BCE.
G. Athens becomes inferior power in Greece.
H. Sparta, then Thebes unsuccessful in attempts to unite Greece.
Wars continue between city-states.