Today we started on our next project. The topic our group is researching is Military. I am researching the Delian League, specifically.
Here are some notes:
-The Delian League was founded by the Athenians after the Persian Wars
-it was a military organization whose purpose was basically to keep pushing the Persians out of Greece
-The league was a sort of confederacy dividing Greece into 5 districts: Thrace, Hellespont, Ionia, Caria, and the islands
-Over time, Athens starting turning the league into an empire
-the Pelopennisian War started as a result of the League making Athens too powerful--the League went up against Sparta and its allies
http://www.pbs.org/empires/thegreeks/background/27.html
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/eb11-delianleague.asp
http://www.livius.org/de-dh/delian_league/delian_league.html
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