Pericles promoted Imperialism. Sparta was the isolationist and considered as threat to the Athenian Empire.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Pericles made Athens a beautiful city.
Pericles did make the Athens city-state to perfect. This is a generous city.
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Pericles was a leader of Athens who was responsible for rebuilding Athens following the Persian Wars. He was also leader of Athens during the Peloponnesian War, but he died of the plague that ravaged the city.
Pericles ruled Athens in 460 b.c when Athens and Sparta were the most powerful city-states
Pericles was a boy, and he was with his family in a city in the Peloponnese taking refuge. The city had been evacuated.
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Pericles called Athens the school for all Greece, because he believed that Athens was better than all the other cities in culture and government. He believed that all the other city states should follow Athens example.