Monday -Video
Tuesday- Notes
Battle of Plataea- The Persians still controlled much of Greece after their loss at Salamis and still had a large land army. The Greeks fielded the largest hoplite army ever seen. The Persians possessed a similar number of troops. Once again it was a superior armor, weapons and the phalanx that won it by for the Greeks.
The Peace Treaty- All greek cities-states of Asia were to be free. If the terms were observed by the perisan kind and his generals, then the Athenians would not to send troops to perisan lands.
Wednesday- Notes
The Golden Age of Athens
477BC-431BC
Came about after Greece defeated the Persian
Pericles Plan for Athens
- Strengthen Athenian Democracy
- Hold and strengthen the empire
Helped establish and eventually led the Delian league after the Perisan wars
Alliance of Greek-City States
Grew Athens Navy
- Glorify Athens
Used money from the delian league to buy gold, marble and ivory
Used money to form the delian league to hire artists,architects, and workers to build buildings and sculptures.
Greek sculptors focused on beauty, not realism
Greek Drama-Tragedy and Comedy
- A comedy contained scenes filled with humor
- Playwrights often made fun of politics and respected people and ideas of the time.
Thursday-notes
The start of the Greatest subject in recorded history
- History.
Peloponnesian War
- What we know that war came from historian Thucydides. Fought between AThens and Sparta. Athens was acting like a bully to other city-states. Sparta had a better army,Athens had a better navy. Sparta eventually won.
Friday-Notes
Three stages of the Peloponnesian war
- Sparta launched repeated invasions of Attica staring in 431 BCE
- Goal was to take over their land and eventually starve the Athenians if they would not meet them in battle.
Pericles Plan for Athens Victory
Stage 1:
- Wanted to avoid land battles with sparta
- Use the Long walls to access the sea in order to trade and get resources.
- Use the athenians navy to invade cities in the peloponnese
The Plague
- In 430 BCE, a plague hits Athens
- The plague wiped out over 30,000 citizens sailors and soldiers, including pericles and his sons
- Roughly one-third to two-thirds of the Athenian population died
- The fear of the plague was so widespread that the Spartan invasion of attica was abandoned
Peace of nicias-first stage peace treaty
- This period of the war ended in 421 BCE with(10 years after the war started) with the signing of the peace of nicias
- The treaty basically said that both sides would give back mst everything that they took from the other during the war
- Athens could continue to collect tribute from the states from which it had received
- Peace treaty was abandoned in 421 BCE
Stage 2: Sicilian Exhibition
- In 415 BC, Athens invaded Syrcuse,Sicily
- 100 ships,5,000 soldiers, 30 horses
- Wanted to help ethnic allies(ionians) that were on the island
- Athens enemy were the Syrcusan’s and spartans
- Athens wanted to take the entire island for resources
- An athenian general defected to sparta and told them that Athens wanted sicily so they could launch an invasion of italy, carthage and the peloponnese
Stage 3:
- Known as the Declian war (413-404 BCE)
- The spartans moved into attica and eventually took over city of decelia and fortified
- Their goal was to take over the land and prevent Athens from getting supplies into the city over land
- This would force Athens to rely on supplies via the sea
- Due to this, sparta started focusing on attacking areas that athens got resources from
- Areas around athens-silver mines
- Sparta was now also getting help from the Syracusans and Perian’s
- Athens followed the spartans with their navy as the spartans went to attack their strongholds
- In 405 BCE, the Athenians were defeated in the naval Battle of aegospotami
- The athenians surrendered,ending the Peloponnesian War
Aftermath of Peloponnesian War
- Sparta took over the Athens empire
- Sparta got all the riches from the war and SParta’s got little to nothing
- For a short period of time, Athens was ruled by Sparta and the Thirty tyrants
- IN 403 BC, the thirty tyrants were overthrown and a democracy was restored.
- Sparta was soundly beat by Thebes at the Battle of Leuctra in 371 BCE ending sparta dominance in the areas.
- Philip II of Macedon conquered all of Greece of expect Sparta in 338 BC
- Philip son, alexander the great,took over Sparta by 331 BCE- and lots more.
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