Plague of Athens

The Persian wars were battles between Greece and the Persian empire, this war started in 490 BCE and ended in 479 BCE. Greece is a country in the south eastern area of Europe and wasn’t united as a country but split into many different city-states. Athens and Sparta(who were great enemies) eventually combined forces to fight against Persia. At the time, the Persian empire was the biggest empire that conquered from southern Egypt to Eastern India. It was founded in 550 BCE by Cyrus the great.…

Unit 1 Assignment Greece was divided by the dominance of Sparta and Athens during the Peloponnesian War. “The Peloponnesian War pitted against each other two Greek states that were antithetical in nearly every respect.”(Hanson) Sparta was made of small settlements of and allies and became a military state. Athens had more citizens than Sparta whom had an army of about only 10,000 men. Both Athens and Sparta believed they had advantages over each other in the war between the two, which broke out…

The rise of democratic institutions in Athens with growing naturalism of sixth-century BCE sculptures reflected the important development in Greek spirit of innovation and accomplishments (Sayre 59). In Herms, Kouroi and the Political Anatomy of Athens (Apr., 2007), Josephine Crawley Quinn looks at both sculpture types, Herms and Kouroi, relationship between them, roles of representations of male body in promoting and reinforcing the political ideals, democracy, in archaic Greece (Quinn, p. 83)…

Sparta is known as one of the best military states, but Athens is known to be the greatest city state. I would like to live in Athens because they are more superior than Athens. To begin with, Athens is more superior than Sparta in naval power. They had a clear advantage through the seas by receiving resources and attacking against other city states. Athens or more of the leading city stayed in Sparta because of their economy. Does the union economy is a cesspool because of their trading and…

deconstruction of the old Mycenaean economic and social structures with the strict class hierarchy and heredity rule were forgotten, and eventually replaced with new socio-political institutions that eventually allowed for the rise of Democracy in 5th c. BCE Athens”(Sakoulas,7). The Mycenaean strict ruling was forgotten which was then replaced with democracy later on. Democracy allowed Greece to move forward. Finally the last period before the Golden Age of Greece, the Archaic Period, was a…

Persia and Greece were both strong and prosperous empires. The feud between the two Empires went on for many centuries. Although Persia and Greece gave man full authority, both empires developed different social structures and unalike religious beliefs. Persia and Greece both have dissimilar social structures that consist of certain individuals. In early western Iran, the society was categorized into three social classes. The classes consisted of warriors, priests, and peasants. Warriors had…

differences amongst their political views. For example, document 4 is a speech by Pericles to the Athenians. He spoke in favor of the democracy in Athens to show that they were better than other city-states. The city was governed by the people instead of the government, and Pericles described how laudable the structure was. Even though Pericles was from Athens, which may have caused bias, the speech shows that the first democracy was successful and the Athenians were content. Additionally,…

Alexander took over greece because of the instability that war had caused. This is cause the country had been split up into city-states and was very multi-cultural. There were many different point of views within the culture which caused conflict. Greece for one had a lot of enemies like rome and macedonia. After ruler Epaminondas had fallen greek makes peace and created a short term league for safeguarding. Which actually brought more confusion to the country. Many rulers and officials formed…

For example the Greeks begin to rise with many city-states becoming powerful countries of Their Own like Sparta Athens Macedonia and many others. Yeah all these countries emerged only because they were close to the Mediterranean Sea which was the main sea or the closest sea for the Greeks or Greece. Basically that makes the sea the most important aspect of the growth…

Eleutheria: Freedom “Hanson daringly brings the facts to life and unearths the often surprising ways in which the past informs the present.” Western Civilization’s basic social norms and values traced back to Ancient Greece, were ultimately threatened by the overwhelming numbers and wrath of the Persian army. The Persians were distinctly divergent from the Ancient Greeks in the sense that their culture did not agree with the concepts of Western Civilization. An interesting fact talked about by…