ANCIENT HISTORY ASSESMENT: SPARTA By Jorge T What are the main features of Spartan government in the period to 500BC?: HOW SPARTAN CONSTITUTION/GOVERNMENT CAME TO BE: Throughout the Greek world at this time‚ a great period of expansion and colonization took place‚ chiefly due to land hunger. Sparta attacked neighboring Messenia and engaged in a series of wars‚ reducing the population to serfdom. The success in these wars enabled Sparta to double the agricultural resources. At some point
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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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Esperanza describes how her family came to live at the house on Mango Street. She‚ her parents‚ her brothers‚ Carlos and Kiki‚ and her sister‚ Nenny‚ moved to Mango Street when the pipes broke in their previous apartment and the landlord refused to fix them. Before they moved into the house on Mango Street‚ the family moved around a lot. The family had dreamed of a white house with lots of space and bathrooms‚ but the house on Mango Street has only one bedroom and one bathroom. Esperanza notes that
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of the Athenian Golden Age. the main circumstance that I understand driven to the conclusion of the Athenian Golden Age was overpopulation which drove to disease. This quickly directed to the death of the such a distinguished leader of Athenians‚ Pericles‚ which indirectly affected to a sudden shift of defective leadership and a break of the
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into epic legends that were recorded as history; "Spartan legend first became crystallized and as to the manner in which it was enshrined in Hellenic literature: the Spartiates fashioned the legend in the early decades of the fifth century‚ and Herodotus propagated it in his History" (Hooker 230). This turning of common Spartan deeds into legends and then recorded as history has led to diluted misinterpreted facts that distort the truth behind the actions. In fact Athenian aristocrats who hated
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functions in Military‚ Religious and Judicial/Political. The Kings main role in Military could vary between the Kings. The Kings were supreme me commanders of the army yet only one led the campaign while the other one stayed in Sparta. Ancient Historian Herodotus claims this was after Cleomenes and Demaratos in 510 BC the two kings that had disputes. However Xenophon notes that it was the Ekklesia who chose what King went on the campaign. However there were some privileges of being a king when being in charge
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to Athens in the first half of the 5th Century BC?’. September 22‚ 1997 http://members.fortunecity.com/surfcom/essays/themisto.html Haywood‚ J. ‘Historical Atlas of Ancient Civilisations’. Penguin Books Ltd: New York‚ 2005. p. 50-51 & 102-105 Herodotus Pacal. ‘The Decree of Themistocles and Military Probability’. July 21‚ 2009 http://makinapacalatxilbalba.blogspot.com/2009/07/degree-of-themistocles-and-military.html Thayer‚ B. Online Book: ‘The Parallel Lives by Plutarch’. Vol. II Loeb Classical
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Study Guide Fall 2012 POS 340 ASU Figures: Lycurgus Solon Pericles Aeschylus Sophocles Orestes Athena Antigone Creon elenchos nomos demos idiotes polis agon paideia demagogue philosopher king/queen theory of the Forms the Good divided line allegory of the cave myth of Er cycle of decline 5 types of constitutions Socratic ignorance examined life soul/psyche funeral oration Peloponnesian War Mytilenian debate Melian dialogue heroic virtues Greek
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Motivation and Narrative in Herodotus. New York ‚ United Sated: Oxford University press. Boisestate. (2010). What is imperialism . Retrieved 03 12‚ 2014‚ from Biostate edu: http://edtech2.boisestate.edu/lockwoodm/Imperialism/WhatIs.htm Burn‚ A. (1964). atschool. Retrieved 01 31‚ 2014‚ from persia and the greeks ‚ the defence of the west : hhtp://atschol.eduweb.w.uk/sivvobtich.suffolk/part/docs/20/xerxes.htm Butterfild‚ B. J. (1997). The persian Wars by Herodotus. Retrieved 03 06‚ 14‚ from Meadans:
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—Inga Clendinnen‚ The History Question "Who owns the past? In a free society‚ everyone. It is a magic pudding belonging to anyone who wants to cut themselves a slice‚ from legend manufacturers through novelists looking for ready-made plots‚ to interest groups out to extend their influence." K. Jenkins – postmodernist * The historian’s purpose is to possible impose pattern on history. * Relativism… is a fact of life. * History is one of a series of discourses about the world. H. White –
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