Ancient Greece: The Peloponnesian War

When it came to war in Ancient Greece, their civilizations had the mountains to serve as barriers from enemies. The mountains also dictated the political character of Greece which was city-states. The city-states were run by the people and the people also got to pick who they wanted to lead them. The agriculture allowed civilizations to settle down, and farm their food, which led them wanting to expand their land. The only problem with the farmers wanting to expand their land was they wanted to take the Barbarians pasture lands and they didn’t like that. The farmers ended up threatening them by saying they were going to provide them with less food if they didn’t give up their land. Just by this disagreement, the farmers were able to change …show more content…
When the Persians came to fight Greece to see who could obtain power over the eastern Mediterranean, all the city-states in Greece allied together to stop them from taking over. Greece, in the end was able to beat the Persians since they were familiar with their territory unlike the Persians. The Persian War, led to the dispute between the Spartan and Athens city states where they broke out into war because the Spartan’s feared the Athens were growing too powerful. This war was known as the Peloponnesian War, where at first the Sparta’s beat Athens and then built a navy using Persian financial support to beat them even more. Later on the Athens allied with the Persians to defeat Sparta, which led to more and more disputes as the years went on. Greece wars were mainly fought by volunteers of the city-states where they had long spears, sharp short swords, circular bronze shields and heavy armor. As time passes they discovered that lighter armor helped them move easier in battle, and the armies became more structured. Like, they started to strategies and plan out their attacks by either surprising their enemy or coming up with a game plan to