Persian wars

change and improvement; Additionaly, Athenians wanted to be economically advanced. Democracy was also founded by the Athenians, and this led to Athens becoming "the leader of the Greek world" (Sources of the Making of the West,57). During the Persian Wars, both

protection against the Persians after the first Persian War, mainly to make the Persians pay for the invasion and to free the Greeks that were under Persian rule (Gill, 2016, 2). All members of the League contributed both silver and ships to the war efforts, but it was Athens that dominated (Brand, n.d., pp. 28). With Athens leading with a strong naval military, the Delian League pushed back the Persian’s second invasion of Greece and were able to liberate Thrace and the Aegean of Persian strongholds (Gill

function as a nation. Each city-state acted as a separate, independent country, which did not bring unity to Greece, instead it made Greece too vulnerable. These differences of the city-states eventually led to wars that drastically changed the nation such as the Persian and Peloponnesian Wars, which both involved the two most infamous city-states, Sparta, and Athens. The inevitable event, that factored in Ancient Greece’s downfall, was Alexander the Great’s death. Alexander played a major role in Ancient

that time. He loved to learn new things, and his favourite subjects include music, politics, ethics and philosophy. Pericles had grown up in the time period of the Persian War. When Pericles became a young man, he used his wealth to help sponsor a play labelled “The Persians”. The play was about how the Athenians had defeated the Persians at the battle of Salamis. Him sponsoring the play helped him become a popular character in Athens. Early Life In the early times of Pericles’

Great, who was also one of the most successful military commanders of all time. He died by a strange illness at the young age of 33. In Ancient Greece territories called city-states were constantly at war with each other. Athens and Sparta, being the largest of the city-states, were at war the most. Athens had a massive navy whereas Sparta had better trained soldiers. During times when Greece was with other countries, the city states would put aside their differences and unite and push back

Athens and Sparta. These two cities are very close to each other yet they are very different. Firstly, I will present Athens and Sparta generally. Secondly, I will discuss their military and trade expansion and how they reacted to the Persian and Peloponnesian war. Finally, I will examine their political long-term stability. Athens is the capital of Greece and also was its largest city. It became a very strong trading power because it was located next to the Mediterranean Sea, so they also had a

Sparta’s dependence on Persian money in the last years of the war reflects another consequence of this alliance. At the onset of the Peloponnesian War, Sparta positioned itself as the liberators of Greece. They justified their aggression by claiming their primary objective was to free those living under Athenian tyranny. Thucydides claims most Greeks hoped for a Spartan victory, Men’s feelings inclined much more to the Spartans, especially as they proclaimed themselves the liberators of Hellas. No

According to this speech, life in Athen in the 5th century seemed great. Athens was converting their oligarchy to a democracy. The Greco-Persian War was the main reason for this change in government. Athenians, who were very outnumbered against the Persians, won the first battle of the Greco-Persian War. The war consisted of two major battles named the Battle of Marathon and the Battle of Salamis. Athens knew that Persia would eventually attempt to take over their polis because Persia was expanding

Athens and other city-states of Greece and the primary motive of creating the Delian League was to protect the Greece from Persian attack and dominion. But after the second Persian war (after 479 BCE) some allies were no longer interested to enter war against Persia. One of the ally was Sparta became a major rival of Athens. However, other allies who were keen to continue war were still with Athens. According to the Delian League policy each ally had to contribute ships, money or silver to the treasury

of the Persian war, the two states slowly became aware of one another’s growing power. More time went by, and the Spartans began to grow conscious of the other states, feeling wary and paranoid around them (Fox, 170). No state was particularly to blame for the strain on their peace treaty, nor for the war, it came as the two states developed. Eventually the two states had clashed enough and declared war. Although the Spartans gave the Athenians a chance to back down and temporarily stall war, the two