Classical Athens

before the common era commenced with Sparta’s fear of Athens’ rising power. Sparta a primitive, economically challenged land power, led the independent states. In contrast, Athens an advanced, economically wealthy sea power, oversaw alliance states. Even though they both were state super powers, there was a noticeable difference in their culture, economic background and how they led the subordinate states of government. As well as, Sparta’s and Athens’ strategic approach to war, in the…

Democracy is a form of government that the superior power is in the people directly or by the ones they elected for free. People all over the world have different beliefs about who invented democracy. Some think America did, others believe the Greeks did, and a few believe that the Native Americans where the real founders. After doing some research and reading a few articles I have come to the conclusion that the Greeks were indeed the original founders of American Democracy. The main reason…

blame for the Peloponnesian War and the thirty-year conflict between Athens and Sparta’s allies. Most people will argue that the Spartans will be more to blame because they are the ones who initially started the war. But, from the evidence I gathered from the book “The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures” by Lynn Hunt it claims that the Athens are more at fault for these problems. A reason that points the finger to Athens having most of the fault is their Golden Age general Pericles.…

Ancient Greece was one of the most impactful societies during it’s time and history in general, thanks to how the government system was created and maintained, the plethora of ideologies and philosophies, and the economic system. Greece was the birth of arguably one of the most important government systems ever created now known as a Democracy which is still used today. Philosophies and ideologies impacted the regions nearby and have also affected modern day drastically in many ways. The…

leader and under his leadership created Athens into a world power. It was his wit that forced the Persians to become trapped in the straits of Salamis.…

The Greek empire was unorganized and underdeveloped having trouble unifying their group of people as one political group. The Greeks, developing on stony lands, formed on an area with no fertile plains nor irrigating rivers with the mountains separating the entire the land mass into areas with little escape and travel routes. Greece was different than the other european lands around it because of the rocky structure and the people needed to be stronger to survive in the hardships that came with…

will discuss the way in which people living in the two greatest cities of Ancient Greece, Athens and Sparta, obtained the right to participate in public life and make decisions affecting their communities, who held public office in those days, what rules governed the selection of public office holders, how the two city-states were similar in their governmental structures, and how they differed. People in Athens participated in public life through a process of decision making for the community…

Greece and Mesopotamia are two very different civilizations. One difference was the government. Greece was the first democracy in history while Mesopotamia had a theocracy. Another difference was the fact that citizens had a say in government in Greece. Now while that ties into Democracy at the time no one else had thought of anything like it. However, even though they were different these two ancient powerhouses did have some similarity. One similarity was th belief in more then one god. At one…

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“The disputes over Athenian sanctions against Megara, as well as over its use of force against Potidaea and alliance with Corcyra, reflected the larger issues of power motivating the hostility between Athens and Sparta. The Spartan leaders feared that the Athenians would use their superiority in long-distance offensive weaponry - the naval forces of the Delian Leagueto destroy Spartan control over the Peloponnesian League. The majority in the Athenian assembly, for their part, resented Spartan…