Transcript Peloponnesian War - Mr. Reustle's Social Studies

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Created after the Persian Wars
Greek city-states unite
200 city-states join (Sparta says no)
Defensive alliance
Athens becomes leader
Used the navy to control the Aegean Sea
• Athenian General
• “First citizen”
• Dream = Athens
perfect city
• Rebuilt palaces &
temples
• Rebuilt Parthenon
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War = Athens vs. Sparta
Lasted 30 years
Ended 404 B.C.
Athens surrender to
Sparta
• Sparta sets up an
Oligarchy
• Athens revolts
• Athens restores
Democracy
• Pericles allowed
Athenians into
Parthenon
• Overcrowding led to
illness
• 1/3 of Athenians died
from disease
• 338 B.C. Phillip II of
Macedonia conquered
Greece
• Focused on thinking
process
• Search for truth
• Taught people how to
think
• Ask questions
• Socratic method
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He was viewed as threat
Accused of the following:
Denying gods
Corrupting young
Attempting to overthrow
the government
• Student of Socrates
• Wrote all Socrates’
writing
• Set up a school to train
government leaders
• Believed only wise
should rule
• Wrote The Republic
• The study of
government
• Pupil of Plato
• Using senses to discover the laws
that govern.