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Pericles promoted Imperialism. Sparta was the isolationist and considered as threat to the Athenian Empire.

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Are the Persians and the Pericles the same thing?

The Persians were a people from today's Iran who formed a large empire in Asia and north Africa. Pericles was a general and politician in the city-state of Athens.


The result of Pericles' death was what?

Pericles had guided Athens into a war with the Peloponnesian League which was led by Sparta. He was confident that the walls of Athens and its superior navy, financed by the empire which Athens had created, would prevail. Two years later Pericles died of a plague which engulfed the Athenians penned up in an unhealthy environment within the city walls. Subsequent populist leaders led the people into risky deviations from his plan, and after another disastrous 25 years of war, Athens surrendered and was stripped of its empire, becoming a second class power.


What influenced pericles?

Pericles had been educated by some of the leading philosophers of his day. Pericles was strongly influenced by Aspasia, a female philosopher and courtesan from Miletus, who lived in Athens, Greece. He was also influenced by his great uncle, Cleisthenes. Cleisthenes had given Athens its first democratic constitution. Pericles was determined to continue the reforms of his great uncle and serve his city-state by making it more democratic than ever.


Where did Pericles get his money to build Athens?

he was getting money from smaller city-states, because the Athens promised to protect them from war, but they used it for other things, and that's how the peloponesian war started


Is the reign of Pericles considered the most glorious in the time in the history of Athens or the Golden Age of Greek history?

It was golden not because of Pericles but because of the gold Athens mulcted as taxes from the 200 Greek cities of its empire. This money bankrolled the Golden Age, which came to an end when Athens lost this empire and its gold.