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Ancient Greece
The ancient greek civilization starts around 3200 BC with the Cycladic civilization [followed by the Minoan (2700 BC) and the Mycenean civilization (1600 BC)] and flourished from the 7th century BC to the 2nd century AD, especially in the 5th century BC with the city-states of Athens and Sparta.
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The establishment of the Delian League caused Athens to become very?
The establishment of the Delian League allowed Athens to protect its sea borders and lessen the threat of becoming a target for the Persian Empire. This alliance caused Athens to become the dominant city-state in Greece.
No, a chiton is not an ecdysozoan. An ecdysozoan (clade Ecdysozoa) is an organism that sheds/molts its tough external coat (cuticle) as it grows up. Chitons are soft bodied organisms that secrete a hard, protective shell made up of calcium carbonate with eight dorsal plates. They belong to the Class Polyplacophora which belongs to the Phylum Mollusca.
(so you can see the classification easier...in case it was confusing):
---Clade Eumetazoa
-- Phylum Mollusca
- Class Polyplacophora
**Phylum Mollusca is NOT the only phylum within that clade! There are other phylums/classes/lineages belonging to the clade too!**
In 423 BC Sparta joined forces with other city-states against Athens to fight what war?
Sparta led the Peloponnesian League, which opposed the intrusions of the empire which Athens had formed out of the anti-Persian Delian League. The Peloponnesian War started in 431 BCE, paused in 423 BCE then resumed until Athens and its empire were defeated in 404 BCE.
What help did Sparta receive from Persia in exchange for Greek territory?
Persia did not receive Greek territory from Sparta. In the latter part of the Peloponnesian War, Persia provided the money for the Peloponnesian League, which Sparta led, to build and man a war fleet which could match the hitherto dominant Athenian fleet. This fleet defeated the Athenian fleet at Aigospotamai in 405 BCE, which led to Athenian surrender the following year.
After the end of this internal Greek war, the Greek city-states continued to fight each other to exhaustion under various shifting alliances, with first Sparta, then Thebes dominating. Persia took the opportunity to take back the Greek city-states in Asia Minor which it had lost earlier in the first half of the 5th Century BCE during the Persian Wars. The weakened Greek city-states of mainland Greece were then taken over by Macedonia, which later invaded Asia under Alexander, who took over the Persian Empire for himself.
And Sparta under king Agesilaus had actually invaded Asia Minor and begun pushing the Persians back when internal wars in mainland Greece forced his recall in 494 BCE. It remained to Macedonia under Alexander 60 years later to undo the Persian Empire.
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What was the name of the war the Spartans fought the Persians?
The Spartans combined with the other southern Greek states to repel a Persian invasion designed to incorporate mainland Greece within the Persian empire in 480-479 BCE.
It is often called today the Persian War, however the Greeks fought the Persians off and on over two hundred years.
Did the Persians celebrate when they found the Athens city empty?
They simply looted it, and destroyed the statues of the gods in retribution for Athens' destruction of Persian gods when they burnt the Persian provincial capital of Sardis twenty-odd years earlier.
And the city wasn't entirely empty. A party had remained behind defending the Acropolis, but were quickly overcome.
Afternote:
After the Athenians returned to their citiy when the Persians withdreww, they didnt know what to do with te smashed statues of the gods, and buried them in the ravine nearby, waiting for the gods to let them know what to do with them. They were discovered over two thousand years leaer in 1923 CE, and confirmed that the Greeks did not have the austere statues we imagine today, but painted them in gaudy reds, blues and greens.
An agora is similar to a mall, flee market, or anything that is used to hold meeting, since the definition states that an agora is a public market and meeting place
How did Euripides influence modern day lifes?
Euripides achievements effect today society because he helped make drama and plays come in English . many of the greek plays today that is played in English is helped because of Euripides . he helped many people with there plays and there carree today .
What were the consequences of the Spartans from the battle of thermopylae?
They lost one of their two kings and his bodyguard.
They kept their army home defending their city.
They agreed to continue the Greek strategy of trying to defeat the Persian fleet so that the southern Greek cities would not have to remain at home defending thier cities against threatened Persian amphibious attack, and could concentrate against the persian army, which they did the following year.
As the sea battle at Artemesion which was precipitated by the holding of the pass at Thermopylai failed, there was little result from Thermopylai other than good propaganda after the war.
Is 'the end of the Persian invasion was soon after a sea battle at Salamis' true or false?
False.
Yes/No questions are bad ones as you often don't learn anything from them, and they often give you the wrong result. Tell your teacher that. The real answer is:
Whilst the Salamis battle was pivotal in ending Persian dominance in Greece, it took two more battles the following year to destroy the Persian forces - Platia and Mykale. Unless they had won those battles, the Greeks would have lost overall.
Where did corinthinan order originate?
The Corinthian Order, a type of architectural column used to support a roof originated in Greece in the 4'th century BC. The Doric and Ionic columns originated a few hundred years earlier in the 7'th century BC. These were the three principle distinct column types, or orders, of the ancient Greeks.
Are there any famous philosophers in Ancient Rome?
Seneca was the most famous Roman Stoic philosopher. Other prominent stoic philosophers were Cato the Younger, Rebellius Plautus, Musonius Rufus, Thrasea Paetus, and emperor Marcus Aurelius.
Epicurean philosophers were: Amafinius, Horace, Lucretius and Virgil. Julius Caesar leaned strongly towers Epicureanism, even though he was not actually a philosopher in the academic sense.
Boethius was a Neo-Platonist.
St Augustine, the prominent Catholic theologian, was a Roman and also a Neo-Platonist philosopher.
What did Alexander the Great send to Athens?
In a nutshell, as "the poet Chatzigakis expressed it, Greece went for a stroll with Alexander the Great, and from then οn Greece never came back to Greece." http://www.myriobiblos.gr/texts/english/1821_problems_of_greek.html (article of Hélène Ahrweiler,(http://erc.europa.eu/get_member/1859)
Alexander, being Greek (http://macedonia-evidence.org/obama-letter.html) did not only liberate Greek cities in Asia Minor from the Persians, did not only founded Greek cities all over his empire but he also spread Hellenism. The Greek language became universal after Alexander. Greek philosophy exploded (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellenistic_philosophy) and the Ptolemaic dynasty in Alexandria of Egypt, the most famous of the many Alexandrias Alexander founded, built the most famous library of the time and tried to collect all human knowledge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria). Without Alexander the Greek language and Philosophy would not be as widespread as they became. Alexander did not conquer Italy but the following Roman empire kept the Greek language and Philosophy alive and Christianity found the tools to expand through out the empire and beyond. As W.R Inge has written "Platonism is part of the vital structure of Christian theology, with which no other philosophy, I venture to say, can work without friction." (http://www.scribd.com/doc/24821976/Inge-W-R-The-Philosophy-of-Plotinus-1917-18) So Alexander gave Greece to the world.
With a burgeoning population which even incessant wars could curb, the Greek city-states had no option other than to ship their surplus people around the Mediterranean and Black Seas to seize land and establish new city-states for themselves, resulting in over 2,000 cities.
What values of a hero were important to the Greeks?
The Greeks valued several key traits in a hero, including courage, honor, and loyalty. A hero was expected to demonstrate physical strength and skill in battle, embodying the ideals of bravery and resilience. Additionally, wisdom and moral integrity were crucial, as heroes were often seen as role models who upheld societal values and engaged in noble quests for the greater good. Ultimately, a hero's legacy was defined by their actions and the impact they had on their community and the world.
