Transcript Peloponnesian Wars

Peloponnesian Wars
By David Taus
With Special Thanks to
John Grosel
General Movie Idea
• The General Idea of this movie is the
Peloponnesian Wars and why they matter
Why my Movie?
• The Peloponnesian Wars are Important
because they helped to shape the
development of the world
Audience
• The targeted Audience of this Movie would
be teens around 13-15 same age they
would be learning this in school
Groups and their enemies
• The groups in these wars were the Delian
League, the Peloponnesian League,
Persia and Egypt
• The Delian League was enemies with all
but Egypt
• The Peloponnesian League was enemies
with all
• Persia was enemies with all
• Egypt was enemies with all except the
Delian League
Why the wars started
• The wars started all because of a man named
Aristogoras
• Aristogoras was ruler of Miletus a port city in Persia
• Aristogoras wanted more power so he attacked an island
called Naxos
• His attack failed and fearing he would be in trouble with
the King of Persia, he defected to Athens so Miletus
became an Athenian city
• There is a little more to it but that is why the wars started
at first
Why does this matter to Greece
• This matters to Greece because if the
wars had been lost by Greece we would
be living in a different world
• How different no one can say for sure
• The modern world is heavily influenced by
Greece and had Greece been destroyed…
• The world would be utterly different
Agreements and Conflicts
• Agreements
• It was agreed by the
Greeks that is the
Delian League and
the Peloponnesian
League that Persia
was a common
enemy
• Conflicts
• Conflicts included
who should be leader
of the Greek forces
Athens always wants
to be best Sparta was
the better military
group
Sparta Vs. Athens
• Sparta
Land based war attack
crops and Athenian
allies
Force traditional Hoplite
battle had more
people
• Athens
Sea based battle attack
coastal cities,
sacrifice land locked
cities and surrounding
area
Fewer people rely on
sea trade
Notable Battles
• Some notable battles are the ones at
Marathon and Thermoplaye
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