4-3: CLASSICAL GREECEPersian WarAthenian EmpirePeloponnesian War

PERSIAN WAR

Athenian navy assists unsuccessful revolt of Ionians, 499 BCE

Greeks unify for once against Persian threat

Athens builds massive navy

Rise of Athens Delian League

Causes Effects

PERSIAN WAR DETAILS 480 BCE Persians invade

Athens had built huge navy Themistocles

Battle of Thermopylae “300” Athens abandoned as

Persians advance Battle of Salamis

Major navy victory 479 BCE Battle of

Plataea Persians defeated

ATHENIAN EMPIRE Liberated Greek

city-states held by Persia

“Age of Pericles” Direct democracy

Male citizens Meet each 10 days Ostracism Rebuilding project in

aftermath of war destruction

300,000 pop. ~1/3 slaves

Economy = farming and trade 50-80% of grain

imported Family structure Women

AGE OF PERICLES

AGE OF PERICLES

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AR

431-405 BCE

PELOPONNESIAN WAR

Sparta & allies conflict with Athens & Delian League Athens took from the

Delian League treasury

Threat of overpowering neighbors

Ideology differences

Ruinous for Greece Easy pickings for

powerful neighbors Macedonia

Causes Effects

PELOPONNESIAN WAR 431 BCE starts Athens’ strategy: stay put behind walls,

supplied from colonies by navy Sparta’s strategy: surround Athens – open

combat 429 BCE plague (30% mortality) 25 year struggle! 405 BCE Battle of Aegospotami

Sparta stoops to using a navy Athens falls in a year – walls torn down, etc.