Transcript The Ancient Greeks Part 2

The Ancient Greeks Part 2
Formation of the Delian League
• The Greeks decided to form an alliance to
help fight off another attack by the
Persians
• Each city would donate money and the
Athenians would manage the defense
• The alliances money will be kept at a treasury on
the island of Delos
• The alliance became known as the Delian
League
Formation of the Delian League
• By 454 BC is was obvious that the
Persians were not coming back
• Athens moved the treasury to the city of
Athens
• The Athenians used the treasury to rebuild
their city, their navy and make the Delian
league into their own personal empire
The Age of Pericles
• Between 461 BC and
429 BC Athens
flourished
• It became the most
powerful polis
• Under the leadership of
a statesman named
Pericles, Athens came
to dominate the Greek
world
The Peloponnesian War
• Many of the Greek city states protest the
rule of Athens and wanted to leave the
Delian League
• Athens said once a member of the Delian
League always a member of the League
• When the polis of Plataea tried to leave
the League, Athens attacked the city
• Plataea looks to Sparta for help beginning
the Peloponnesian War
The Peloponnesian War
• A former Athenian general, Thucydides
wrote a history the conflict call the
Peloponnesian War
• Both sides, Athens and Sparta had a plan
to win the war
Spartan Strategy
• Spartan would organize their allies and
invade Attica and attack the city
• The Spartans would destroy the farm land
and the country side forcing the Athenians
to come out and fight
• The Spartan would have the advantage
with their superior army and defeat the
Athenians
Athenian Strategy
• Remain inside their protective walls
• Re-supply their city using the Long Walls
to the port city of Piraeus and their navy
• Let the Spartan wear themselves out
The Peloponnesian War
• Early stages of the war went in favor of
Athens
• Sparta could not breach Athens’ walls
• The city was well supplied by its’ navy via
the long walls
• To many in the ancient world the Athenian
political system seems superior to the
Spartan
432 BC
• In 432 BC disaster hit Athens
• A devastating plague broke out in the city
• The plague killed more than 1/3 of the
people of Athens
• In 429 BC the plague even to the life of
Pericles
What was the Plague?
• Typhus- bacterial infection spread through parasites
• Smallpox-disease caused by a one of two types of
viruses
• Bubonic plague- a very deadly disease caused by a
bacteria transmitted through parasites
• Cholera- caused by the exposure of drinking water to
human and animal waste
• Anthrax- Bacterial disease that affect both man and
animals.
• Ebola- viral disease that is almost 100% fatal.
Transmitted through contact with body fluids, esp. from
the open wounds of the victim
• Typus
• Smallpox
• Bubonic plague
• Cholera
• Anthrax
• Ebola
The Later Phase of the War
• Spartan change her strategy around 432
BC
• Spartan started attack Athens’ allies or
helping them rebel
• Athens depended on her allies for supplies
• Athens now found herself having to not
only fight Sparta but constantly reconquering her allies
The End of the War
• By 405 BC Athens was worn out by the
constant war
• Sparta had manage to help most of
Athens’ allies escape fro her control
• At a place call Aegospotami Sparta
destroyed Athens’ navy
• Without the navy, Athens’ was defeated
Results of the War
• Athens’ had to tear down her wall and the
long wall
• Sparta took control of the Delian League
• Sparta did not know how to manage the
league and it fell apart
• The Greeks fell back to fighting amongst
themselves
Watch out!!!!!!
• While the Greeks are fighting amongst
themselves, the fail to notice a new enemy
from the North