ones that people wanted to be placed in‚ so they were recognized. Warfare was a well-guarded opportunity for social prestige‚ just as was seen in the Ancient Near East and Egypt.ii Allies are another social concept of war. All of the stories by Thucydides mention allies‚ but especially noted in the beginning‚ between the Athenians and Lacedaemonians.iii Allies was all about “making friends” with another country so that you could back each other up if needed. Warfare in Ancient Greece would not be
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Chapter Summary- Origins of Organized Diplomacy This chapter gives us short overview of history of diplomacy‚ how it developed‚ what was at the core beginning and what influenced it most. Firstly there were assumptions that foundations of foreign policy were based on changeless national and imperial characteristics‚ that it is special and beyond understanding of ordinary man‚ so everyone tried to leave it to those elects in the Cabinet and trust them ‘blindly’. Implicitly it was believed that
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The Spartan Economy land ownership: agriculture‚ kleroi‚ helots o Each Spartan male was allotted an equal plot of land ‘kleros’ with a certain number of helots to work the property for them o Helots allowed Spartans to refrain from work and devote themselves to their military training o This land was either received from the state or inherited‚ could not be bought or sold o Kleros provided them with food for their families and syssitia o Plutarch tells us that “Lycurgus persuaded the citizens
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The economy Palace economy The Minoan economy and civilization heavily depended on the cultivation of wheat‚ olives‚ grapes and barley Several industries within the Minoan society had been supported by the Minoan economy such as‚ textiles‚ pottery and metal work industries Minoan palaces became the centre of economic activity and life where manufacturing industries were based in palaces Produce had been collected‚ recorded and stored in palaces – evident through a large amount of pithoi vessels
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Athens and Sparta. Tensions among these two city states have always been extremely high. Sparta has an exceptional military and Athens has an extraordinary navy. Both of these city states have been competing for control of Greece for many years. Thucydides is the best source of knowledge we have about the Peloponnesian war. He was a general for the Athenians‚ and he documented everything that happened during the war. It is a miracle that he and his documentations survived the war‚ as all of the other
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Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship‚ you really haven’t learned anything. . A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide‚ and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity. A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small‚ silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely
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Plutarch: a brief biography Plutarch was one of the last Classical Greek historians. He was born about 45AD at Chaeronea in Boeotia. Plutarch traveled to Egypt and went to Rome. The emperor Hadrian honoured him with a government appointment in Greece and in later life he took up a priesthood at Delphi. He died soon after 120AD. Plutarch wrote a large number of essays and dialogues on philosophical‚ scientific and literary subjects and he frequently attacked both Stoics and Epicureans. He
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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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Realist view: * “self-help” system: states must help themselves * States will seek to maximize power over morality or material interests * International institutions do not matter; only states matter in war and peace- life d death * Power is: * The aim of political struggle * Defines the interests of states * A motivation that is constant throughout human history * Assumptions: * Human nature is bad‚ assume leaders will act in self * Anarchy:
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one of the main causes for the Peloponnesian War. “The real cause I consider to be the one which was formally most kept out of sight. The growth of Athenian power of Athens‚ and the alarm which this inspired in Lacedaemon‚ made war inevitable” (Thucydides). Politically speaking‚ the growth
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