Persian War
He pillaged the 180 city-states of the Athenian empire, which he had helped found, to get the money to pay for 'glorifying Athens'. Spending the money, originally designed to protect against Persian invasion, on this, and putting half of Athens on the public payroll, bought him great political support and promoted his ideas of a radical democracy which suppressed opposition to him.
Tenochtitlan, an ancient Aztec city located in present day Mexico City.
Athens Greece was the birthplace of democracy.
Reconstruction was what the period of rebuilding the south was after the civil war.
Cliestenes
Persian War
Persian War
Athens great general Perikles
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.
I think that Athens was more directed toward money than Sparta, because they wern't directed toward war and were more about enjoying life than war.
The Persian army directed by their king Xerxes I.
A pantheon is a temple to all the gods, a good example is the one in Rome. Is there a pantheon in Athens, I've never come across it.
After WWII, The United States contributed millions of dollars to aid in the rebuilding of Japan. Part of this rebuilding was directed at the Japanese Government. The American Government did not wish for Japan to turn into a Communist nation.
He pillaged the 180 city-states of the Athenian empire, which he had helped found, to get the money to pay for 'glorifying Athens'. Spending the money, originally designed to protect against Persian invasion, on this, and putting half of Athens on the public payroll, bought him great political support and promoted his ideas of a radical democracy which suppressed opposition to him.
Rebuilding usually means recompiling.
They turned first to rebuilding the defensive walls of the city for security, and adding to them with extra walls linking the city to its post. They also re-established the gods at the centre of their religious life - the Persians had wrecked them in retaliation for an earlier Athenian destruction of Persian gods at Sardis when Athens was involved in a Greek raid on the Persian provincial capital. The agora, being a market paddock, did not need rebuilding.