but obvious when one looks at the aftermath of that fateful event. The revolts of a few Greek cities of Ionia were what initially sparked the Persians interest in Athens‚ Attica and the Peloponnese. When Athens sent a small fleet in support of the Ionian rebels they immediately gave Persia a new target for further expansion. The failure of the revolts and the ruin of Sardis and Miletus shocked the Greek world. The Persians now thought‚ "if Miletus had been the glory of subject Greece‚ Athens was the
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Marx’s theory of history The Marxist theory of historical materialism claims society as fundamentally determined by the material conditions at any given time - this means the relationships which people enter into with one another in order to fulfill their basic needs‚ for instance to feed and clothe themselves and their families.[1] In general Marx and Engels claimed to have identified five successive stages of the development of these material conditions in Western Europe.[2] Marx saw history
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Key: Sources for the period THE SPARTAN HEGEMONY (404BC TO 371BC) Sparta’s role at the end of the Peloponnesian war: Sparta had promised Persia the Ionian cities for its help in defeating Athens. This was a traitorous bargain‚ which subjected Ionian Greeks to Persian rule‚ and negated the victories of the Persian wars Sparta suppressed democracies within the Greek city-states and replaced these with oligarchies. This was done with force Lysander‚ a Spartan‚ was the hero of the Peloponnesian war
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World History- 1st Term Trimestral EARLY HUMANS List of early human achievements during the Stone Age * Invention of tools * Mastery over fire * Development of language * Polish stone tools * Make pottery * Grow crops * Raise animals Hominid Development Type | Found where | Brain size | Period | Notes | Australopithecines | Africa | 500 mc 3 | 4 to 1 million years ago | First humanlike creature to walk upright | Homo habilis | East Africa | 700mc 3 | 2.5
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el * Intro: The Delian League formed in 477BCE and was an alliance of Ionian Greek states. Because Sparta was unwilling to fight against Persia‚ Athens took its place and formed the Delian League to fight against the Persians and protect the smaller islands. * In my first paragraph: The original aims of the Delian League created by Aristides were to protect the already liberated Greek city-states from Persian attack and to attack and regain losses during the Persian wars. The Athenian long-term
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intellectual capability was seen at age ten. At this early age‚ he was already reciting the Iliad. He was also subjected for hard trainings and physical work-outs that taught him of survival of hardships and neediness (Cummings 49-51). The famous Greek philosopher of all time‚ Aristotle‚ became Alexander’s tutor. Aristotle discussed concepts about philosophy‚ government and politics‚ literature which include poetry and drama and the various sciences. Most importantly‚ Aristotle explained to Alexander that
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two of the opening lines from Lawrence Durrell’s book “Prospero’s Cell”‚ originally published in 1945. This is the book that made Corfu famous‚ as it is generally accepted. While these claims could be argued as overblown‚ indeed the “Girl of the Ionians” could not have found a fitter chronicler. Seductively balancing descriptive prose with historical detail brings to life the landscape and manners of the island of Corfu. Moreover it did last year an even greater service when the book turned into
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a court singer and storyteller. Modern archaeological research has uncovered artifacts similar to those described in the poems‚ providing evidence that Homer wrote at a later date. Because the poems display a considerable knowledge of Eastern‚ or Ionian‚ Greece and are written in the
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Comedy versus Tragedy “I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms‚ the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.” This is Oscar Wilde’s definition of the theater. But how did theater start? There are so many different genres and types of drama. How did it all come to be? Two of the biggest genres of theater were originated in ancient Greece. They are comedy and tragedy. How do these two styles differ? The main difference
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(A-thens)‚ Sparta (Spar-ta)‚ Corinth (Cor-inth)‚ Thebes(the-be-s) and Argos (Ar-gos). Ancient Greece consisted mainly of a mountainous peninsula jutting out into the Mediterranean Sea. It also included approximately 1‚400 islands in the Aegean and Ionian seas. Lands on the western coast of Anatolia were also part of ancient Greece. The region’s physical geography directly shaped Greek
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