Transcript Greek vs. greek Athens and Sparta were both powerful city

Bellringer
In your own words,
define the term alliance.
The Peloponnesian war
“the suicide of greece”?
Greek vs. greek
 Athens and Sparta were
both powerful citystates.
 each wanted to spread
their way of life.
Alliance
 After the persian war, athens
recruited other greek citystates to form the delian
league.
 Members pledged to defend
each other if attacked
 Sparta formed its own
alliance, the Peloponnesian
league
Tension between the
alliances
 Athens began treating the other citystates that belonged to the Delian
league as Athenian subjects.
 Also, Athens began using money set
aside for the league, for personal
gain.
 Sparta could take no more.
The Pelopponesian War
 Sparta attacked Athens in
431BC, beginning the brutal
27-year-long Peloponnesian
War.
Disease
 When Sparta attacked, the
Athenian people crowded behind
the walls of the city. The cramped
and dirty living conditions were an
easy target for disease.
 A plague spread through the city.
 Sickness claimed the life of
Pericles, the leader of Athens.
An end to the war
 Sparta eventually defeated Athens
by building blockade around the
walls of the city.
 The people of Athens could not
leave to get supplies or food from
the countryside.
 Faced with starvation, Athens
surrendered to Sparta in 404 BC.
The aftermath
 Peloponnesian war lasted for 27
years.
 Cities and crops were destroyed.
Thousand of greeks died.
 All the greek city-states suffered
economic and military losses.
 Lead to the Macedonia King, Philip II,
and his conquest of the greek
peninsula.
The Pelopponesian War
“the suicide of greece”?