Greek city-states fought the invading Persian Empire at the pass of Thermopylae in central Greece. Vastly outnumbered‚ the Greeks held back the Persians for three days in one of history’s most famous last stands. A small force led by King Leonidas of Sparta blocked the only road through which the massive army of Xerxes I could pass. After three days of battle‚ a local resident named Ephialtes betrayed the Greeks by revealing a mountain path that led behind the Greek lines. Dismissing the rest of the
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attack Greece. From the two decades of Greco-Persian war‚ it was the Athens and her allies who came out victorious eventually. After the war‚ there was a discussion between the alliance about the continuation of the war against Persia. Some states like Sparta were against the war and believed the war is over however some others like Athens relied on extension of war against Persia. Eventually the cities who were for the war‚ met in the holly island of delos and had formed the Delian league. They agreed
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History 121 Chapter 7 #1. As the Minoans civilizations we have limited records but we can say they were masters of seas and great shipbuilder‚ which allow them the trade by the seas‚ also they have a base religion using bull leaping not only as a sport‚ if not as a penitence on their religion practice‚ they constructed big cities and palaces for their ruler an example is the Palace of Knossos where the legendary Kind of Minos lived. After the end of the Minoans civilizations there are not
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Steven Pressfield’s The Gates of Fire is set in the fifth century B.C. in Greece. The story revolves around the famous battle of Thermopylae where three hundred Spartans held off hundreds of thousands of Persians‚ saving Greece. Pressfield creates a fictional story around the battle where one man‚ a squire named Xeones‚ survives to tell the Spartan story of the battle and the events preceding it. Xeones‚ who is the protagonist‚ tells his life story to the royal Persian historian while in captivity
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BC. This confrontation hurled the two most powerful city-states of Greece against each other. The two conflicting sides of Athens and Sparta forced many other city-states of the Hellenic world to align themselves. Each city-state could side with the powerful naval confederacy of the Athenians‚ or the elite Spartan military. The combat supremacy of Athens and Sparta was not the only factor. Athens was a mighty empire and wished to expand its control. The Spartans feared Athenian power‚ and they entered
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Last week we were introduced to the political and social structures of Sparta and Athens. Initially‚ the two ancient Greek poleis appeared complete opposites‚ but study proved there were some similarities. I will compare the daily life of Spartans and Athenians based on my impressions from our studies. Spartan life was quite different than other ancient Greek poleis with their warrior mentality. It appears that everything was thought out for the benefit of the Spartan state rather
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What are the three definitions of "demos"? The word “demos” had three different definitions during the archaic period. They were used to define either 1) the division of land into smaller sections 2) a classification of Athenian citizens‚ and 3) a group of troublesome individuals. 1) In 570 BC‚ Cleisthene developed a reformation of politics and social standings in Athens by dividing Athens and areas of the Attic peninsula into ten smaller sections of land which was referred to as
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and freedom that these women possessed began at birth. The unwritten laws of Sparta state that female infants and children must be given the same care and food as their brothers. Unlike girls in other parts of Greece‚ Spartan girls were not brought up to perform such duties as weaving and spinning. Nor did they do the work of a man on the estate while their husbands and fathers were away fighting at war. Such duties in Sparta were fit only for helots or slaves. Instead of performing menial tasks‚ the
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all time due to his compassion for the world. 1) The Spartan’s cultural tradition was unlike any of its kind in Athens and even in the world. The young men of Sparta were removed at age 7 during Agoge for military training‚ and were a part of the military until age 60. War was the first and most important occupation as a man in Sparta‚ and the Art of war was the Spartan ideal. All other arts ere frowned upon. The Economic basis for the Athenians was very strong. The traded grains‚ vegetables
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esteem. (B) What does the writing of Tyrtaeus indicate about society in this period? Tyrtaeus was a Spartan poet who wrote songs to inspire and boost the morale of the Spartan army. It showed that Sparta was very much against cowardice and wanted their army to be strong and remain loyal to Sparta during the wars. During this period of war their was a great deal of redistribution of the land which resulted in change in status for some of the richer citizens. EXAMPLE OF ONE OF HIS POEMS:
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