League or confederation of Greek city-states under the leadership of Athens. The name is used to designate two distinct periods of alliance‚ the first 478–404 B.C.‚ the second 378–338 B.C. The first alliance was made between Athens and a number of Ionian states (chiefly maritime) for the purpose of prosecuting the war against Persia. All the members were given equal vote in a council established in the temple of Apollo at Delos‚ a politically neutral island‚ where the league’s treasury was kept. The
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The Propylaea of the Acropolis in Athens: The Project of Mnesicles In roughly 437 B.C.‚ 10 years after the beginning of the construction of the Acropolis and immediately after the Parthenon had been completed‚ Athens had began construction of a new site for their extremely revered sacred space known as the Acropolis‚ which was already home to great architectural blunders such as the Parthenon and Erechtheion. The entrance to this very commemorative site is referred to as the Propylaea‚ which is
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individuals in more than 100 localities. They‚ therefore‚ provide us with an approximate picture of the life of the bulk of Persian society at the time. They also reveal that Persian society was open to people with different ethnicities such as Ionians‚ Lydians‚ Lycians‚ Egyptians and Babylonians who worked in Persia on a temporary or permanent basis and had the same rights as Persians (complementing the multicultural ideology discussed above). According to Wiesehofer “If they contributed to the
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The geography of Ancient Greece had positive and negative effects on Ancient Greek Civilization. The mountains that cover Greece have acted as a barrier to Greece‚ and it separated Greece instead of uniting it. The Ionian Sea‚ Aegean Sea‚ Thracian Sea‚ Sea of Crete‚ Gulf of Corinth‚ and Mediterranean Sea surrounded Greece. They acted as a highway for Greece in order to reach other nations as efficiently as possible‚ as well as providing Greece with a source of income. Clearly‚ geography shaped Greek
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to what it was‚ how it was formed‚ and how it affected everyone involved throughout the time it existed (both negatively and positively). First‚ the Delian League was an agreement made between Athens‚ and the Aegean coastal regions as well as the Ionian islands as to a naval force to continue to protect the territory won back by Greece from the Persians. All contributed an allotment of both money and ships to continually protect the areas won through battle (Brand‚ n.d.‚ 28). This is the definition
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The Pleistocene Epoch occurred during the Cenozoic Era of the Quaternary period‚ it took up most of the era extending from 1.81-0.01 MYA. The pleistocene is referred to as the Last Ice age‚ when modern humans were primarily evident. As a matter of fact the Pleistocene is a combination between two latin words “Pleistos” meaning most and “Kainos” meaning new or recent. The continents were in their most current positioning Grasslands had developed to adapt to the new chillier climate‚ environments
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NOTRE DAME UNIVESITY SHOUF CAMPUS Research about: EGOISM NATURALISM UTILITARIANISM Presented to: Dr. Charbel Orfali Done by: Firas hamadeh Semester: Spring 2012 Egoism Egoism can be a descriptive or a normative position. Psychological egoism‚ the most famous descriptive position‚ claims that each person has but one ultimate aim: her own welfare. Normative forms of egoism make claims about what one ought to do‚ rather than describe what one does do. Ethical egoism claims that
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HIEU 101 Final Exam Review Sheet Identifications Ionian Revolt Themistocles Pericles Cimon Peloponnesian League Herodotus Thucydides Ephialtes Sophists Satrap Areopagus The Council of the 500 Pisistratus Agoge Stasis Peloponnesian League Aristagoras The Sixth-Parters The Definition of the Word Tyrant The Peace of Callias The Battle of Marathon Megarian Decree Boards of Ten Parthenon Aristophanes Essays 1. The great Persian invasion under Xerxes was a crucial
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songs that were sang were generally monophic and they aften accompanied themselves with an instrument like a lyre or even a drum. 4)What are modes? Describe at least one type of mode. Modes were used before the modern day scales. One Kind of mode is Ionian. 5)What is polyphonic music? How does it differ from monophonic music? Polyphonic Music uses two or more independent melodies. It differs from monophic music because monophic music was dominated in early middle ages. 1)Why did early humans develop
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I am gylippus the greatest mothax general that sparta has seen or will ever see. I turned the tides of the war at syracuse and devastated the athenians‚ but i’m getting ahead of myself. This is the beginning of the second peloponnesian war and i am proving my worth as the best general of all time. I have gained experience battling athens before in the archidamian war i have proven my worth as a commander and i will be instrumental in destroying the athenians once and for all. Even as a mere morthax
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