The Persian And Peloponnesian Wars
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- The Second Persian Invasion
- Thermoplyae
- The Battle Of Plataea
- Xerxes route would require the army to travel through a narrow pass at Thermopylyte.Spartan King Leonidas & 300 elite warriors volunteer to meet them there.
- Effects OF The War
- Leonidas & the Spartans hold off the Persians for 7 days.Eventually, they are all killed.Gives the greeks time to prepare for invasion.
- The Peloponnesian War
- In 479 BCE, Athenian & Sparta hoplitesd defeat the Persian army at the battle of Plataea.Xerxes is forced to retreat back to Peria.
- Aftermath
- Sparta was weakened.Athens emerges as the most powerful city-state.Athens creates the Delian League & builds an empire.Athens rebuilds better than ever & experiences a golden age.
- Tension develops between Athens & SpartaWar Breaks out in 405 BCE between the Delian League led by Athens and the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta.A plague struck Athens, weakening it. Fighting is off and on until 404 BCE. Athens attempted to help an ally on Sicily. Attack the city of Syracuse but lost and Sparta retaliated. In 405 BCE the Spartan general Lysander defeated the Athenian fleet in battle. The people in the city of Athens began to starve. They did not have the army to take on Spartans on land and surrendered.
- Sparta took over the Athenian empire and kept all of its tribute revenues.Athens was rules by the "Thirty Tyrants" & democracy was suspendedEventually, oligarchs were overthrown & democracy returned.Philip II of Macedon conqured all of Greece except Sparta.
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