Peloponnese

Pericles and the re-build of the Acropolis Question One- Pericles was the leader and General of Athens during the so called Golden Ages (A golden age is a period in a field of endeavour when great tasks were accomplished. ) He was born 495 B.C in Athens, Greece and died in 429 B.C. Pericles ruled during 461-429 B.C. after Ephialtes and was described as a brilliant general, orator, patron of the arts and politician—”the first citizen” of democratic Athens, according to the historian Thucydides.…

The End of Byzantium, by Jonathan Harris, seeks to argue against popular thought that the Ottomans and the Byzantines fought due to their different religions, but that the two were often trading partners that adopted some of each other 's culture. Furthering that the real cause of the down fall of the Byzantine Empire were policies of power grabbing on both sides with the Byzantine trying to meddle in Ottoman policies and made several unwise alliances while the Ottoman 's sultans needed…

The Aztec Empire existed between 1428 and 1521, and the Spartan Empire existed between 800 BC and 192 BC. The Aztecs lived in central Mexico, and the Spartans lived in an area of the Peloponnese. While the Aztecs and Spartans shared a society that was based around war, there are some differences between them in that aspect, as well as in the governmental and social aspects of the societies. There are some similarities between the Aztecs and Spartans in this area. One way is that war was…

geography of the land add a civilization lives on can help or hurt the civilization more than you would think. say civilization did not live near any water source that can hurt the civilization in a big way. Ancient Sparta was located Southern / center Peloponnese. Sparta was surrounded on three sides by mountains. All so they could control all the mountain passes that other armies traveled through. This made the Spartan civilization a fortress. It was very hard to get into. This made Sparta…

One example is, “Heracles, my ancestor, had gone no further than Tiryns or Argos–or even than the Peloponnese or Thebes…. Even Dionysus, who is a god… faced not a few laborious tasks; yet we have done more” (Alexander). Alexander uses the allusions to Heracles and Dionysus, to say that if these men became gods from the tasks they were forced to face, then…

Gothic cathedrals and Greek temples are both considered sacred architecture. Scared architecture (or religious architecture) is dedicated to the design and structure of places of worship. This beautiful type of architecture is developed in its own unique way that has spanned over years and years of time. Creative minds, hard working people, and the people of the time helped contribute to these magnificent buildings, and even today these structures are an important part of human history.…

Herodotus wrote his History following the Peloponnesian Wars in Greece. Through his book, Herodotus mentions tensions between the Athenians and the Peloponnese. Specifically, Herodotus writes that during a fourth invasion of Athens by the Dorians, Sparta's allies, the Athenians wanted revenge against Sparta and its allies (Herodotus 5.77). War has the effect of bringing a nation together under a common…

The Olympic games are an international sport festival that is watched by millions of people across the globe. These special games have developed into something much bigger than entertainment purposes. Instead, they have radically changed world culture by uniting all the people in the world with sport. Competitions featuring the world’s greatest athletes and cultures are present at this special occasion. Although, the games are founded to be cultural, emotional and entertaining, the leading…

Who would have thought that one of the greatest rivalries in the ancient world stemmed from a former friendship? The Spartans and Athenians started out as allies fighting against the Persian to becoming fierce rivals fighting in Greece. With the increase in naval power of the Athenians to the jealousy of the Spartans, the two Greek city-states would not have the same military might that they once possessed after the conflict was finally resolved. Athens began as a small city-state and grew to…

Solon was an Athenian statesman, lawmaker, and poet. He is remebered particulary for his efforts to legislate against political, economic, and moral decline in arachaic Athens. Cleisthenes was an ancient Athenian lawgiver credited with reforming the constitution of ancient Athens and setting in on a deocratic footing. For these accomplisments, historians refer to him as "the father of Athenian democracy." Herodotus was a Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus in the Persian Empire. He…