Athens and Sparta were the two great powers of the ancient Greek world. They arose from the same culture and shared many of the same institutions and beliefs. However‚ there were vast differences in the political structures of these two city-states. Athens would become the first democracy that humans would create‚ while Sparta would sacrifice stature and power to maintain the restrictive government and institutional forms needed to prop up their warrior culture. Athenian citizens were counted as
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Athens and captured it. The Greek navy was on the isle of Salamis‚ which is right next to Athens. Early in the morning of a September day the Persians entered a narrow straight‚ this was between the island of Salamis and the Athenian port-city. Themistocles‚ the leader of Greeks army‚ took his army to destroy the Persians. Xerxes watched his ships and a third of his amy get defeated by a nearby hill. At the end of the day a third of the army was defeated. Xerxes then took the
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By the middle of the 5th century B.C. Athens and Sparta‚ the two most powerful Greek city-states‚ found themselves on the brink of a full-scale war. According to Thucydides‚ at the beginning of the war both Athens and Sparta were at the pick of their might and flourishing and could trade and cooperate to each other’s benefit; instead‚ they got involved into an armed confrontation‚ in which the rest of the Greek cities participated‚ on one side or on the other. The growing military and financial
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Around 492 B.C.E. Persia was the most powerful empire in the Mediterranean. They sought revenge towards the Greeks‚ which caused King Darius to send demands to Greece. Athens and Sparta were very hesitant when obeying the demands‚ most of the other city-states were quick to obey. While the Greeks saw what Athens and Sparta did as an act of defiance and it showed pride‚ Darius was obviously not happy. This lead to the Persian Wars‚ which would eventually lead to the Peloponnesian War. Both of these
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The Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC‚ an alliance of 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
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Emergency management (or disaster management) is the discipline of dealing with and avoiding risks. It is a discipline that involves preparing for disaster before it occurs‚ disaster response (e.g.‚ emergency evacuation‚ quarantine‚ mass decontamination‚ etc.)‚ and supporting‚ and rebuilding society after natural or human-made disasters have occurred. In general‚ any Emergency management is the continuous process by which all individuals‚ groups‚ and communities manage hazards in an effort to avoid
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their use of the trireme it helped the Greeks win the war that they fought with the Persians. It was called the Battle of Salamin. The Oracle at Delphi told them that the people would be saved by a wooden wall. The messages weren’t always clear‚ Themistocles thought that “a wooden wall” meant a wooden wall of boats and wanted to fight and defend them with a wall of triremes. Other people thought the message meant they were suppose to build a wall around the acropolis and keep the army out and the
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room for the grand vessel to showcase its ability. In result‚ this allowed for the heavier more sturdy Greek ships to ram into the less sturdy Persian ships. This ultimately led to the Greek’s victory at Salamis‚ but rendered to the beginning of Themistocles. After Xerxes defeat he made a generous offer to the Athenians that included complete restoration if they agreed to make peace with one another. This scared the Spartans‚ however‚ the Greeks reassured them that nothing could amount to the pride
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Causes and major events of Peloponnesian War Let’s remember the earlier events. In the years when there was Persian war‚ conflict between Athens and Sparta seemed not so strong‚ Themistocles‚ whom the ancient historians considered as a talented politician‚ and person who could foresee events begins to build walls around the city. During the struggle between Greeks and Persians (457 - 446 BC.) two most powerful states in Greece had a desire to dominate and as the result they had military clashes
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The History of the Greeks: Hellenic and Hellenistic The Hellenic Age and the Hellenistic Age are the two main periods in Greek history. The Hellenic Age is significantly different from the Hellenistic Age. The Hellenic period saw the rising and falling of the polis while Hellenistic period was plagued by warfare among the remaining dynasties. Despite the differences between the Hellenic and Hellenistic periods‚ the one thing that remained consistent in both periods was the Greeks’ ability to not
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