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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.
10,833 Questions
Why couldn't the Greeks hold the pass at Thermopylae?
They did hold it for three days, to force a sea battle against the Persians. When the Persians won the sea battle, the Pass had no further use, and the Greek force was withdrawn. The Spartan and Thespian contingents stayed holding the pass to let the other city contingents escape.
What is a Fortress called in Greece?
It is called "KASTRO" and it is pronounced exactly like "Fidel Castro".
What common threat united the independent Greek city states?
The Persians tried to impose peace on the Greek city-states in the first half of the 5th Century BCE, in order to stop their habitual warfare spilling over and destabilising their empire. However they failed and the Greek cities went back to fighting amongst each other.
How does the expression brains over brawn apply to the final Greek victory over Persia at sea?
The Greeks decided to lure the Persian fleet into the closed waters between the island of Salamis and the mainland, where they had to break their battle formation, split to go on either side of the island of Psyttalia, and so were vulnerable to the flank attacks by the Greek fleet lying in wait.
They were also persuaded that the Greeks were going to try to flee through the back passage from the strait, and detached the large Egyptian part of their fleet to cover it, so reducing the numbers of their ships to parity with the Greeks.
They were also persuaded that the Athenian contingent might defect to them, and sat at oars outside the entrance all night, and so were exhausted by the morning of the battle.
In these ways, the odds were swung heavily in favour of the Greeks.
The Greeks used to always ride wagons ALL DAY MFER!!
Why was democracy developed in Athens and not Sparta?
Sparta already had a limited democracy - it had to consult its citizens who formed the army and would not fight if they didn't have a say in military and political decisions.
Athens developed its democracy after several false starts to throw off the oppression of its oligarchs who tried to keep the citizens under tight control and manipulate its resources to their own benefit.
Is it important to rest the mind during leisure time or to improve the mind during leisure time?
Improving the mind is not leisure, it is duty. We need down time devoted to pleasure and relaxation, not duty.
Why did the Persians choose to invade the Peloponnesian Peninsula under Darius in 490 BC?
They did not invade the Peloponnesian Peninsula, the had a specific target of the two Ionian cities of Eretria and Athens which had been in an expedition which had burnt down its provincial capital of Asia Minor.
The object was to establish local tyrants to govern the cities and stop them interfering in the Persian Empire.
They got Eretria but lost against Athens at Marathon. This led to a lated Persian invasion ten years later to bring all of mainland Greece within its empire to bring stability to the area.
Who was the peloponnesian war between and what was the result?
peloponnesian league led by Sparta fought the delian league led by Athens. the result was a peloponnesian league victory and the delian league was dismantled
Why did the Persians land at Marathon instead of going to Athens?
The direct answer is that they did go to Athens.
The invasion was a punitive expedition against Eretria and Athens for their intervention in the Persian empire by supporting a revolt by Miletus, in the course of which they overdid things by burning the Persian provincial capital of Sardis.
The punitive force first laid siege to Eretria on the island of Euboia, captured it by traitors opening the gates. It then turned its attention across the strait to Marathon, landing there and attracting the Athenian army there to oppose their overland advance to Athens. They had the exiled Athenian tyrant Hippias with them, whom they intended to install as puppet Persian ruler. Hippias' supporters were going to open the gates of Athens to let the Persians in.
The stalemate persisted at Marathon. The Athenians kept to the hills where the Persian cavalry couldn't get at them. Then on the tenth day, they saw the Persian cavalry being embarked on ships, and seized the opportunity to rush down and defeat the inferior Persian infantry, hoping also to capture the fleet with the cavalry on board. The fleet got away.
The Athenians then woke up to what was happening. The cavalry was being rowed around Cape Sunion to make a landing opposite Athens and gallop up to the city where Hippias' party was going to open the gates for them. The Athenian army ran over the hills back to form up in front of the city just as the Persian cavalry was riding up. It was a near run thing. The cavalry, frustrated, reembarked and the Persians returned home.
So yes, the Persians did go to Athens, it was their plan all along, to pin the Athenian army down at Marathon while their cavalry captured the city. The Athenians would then be squeezed between the city and the Persian army. Not a bad plan, frustrated by those hardy Athenian peasant farmers who were able to run the first Marathon 26 miles over the hills carrying their equipment, having already fought a battle that morning.
Marathon runners get it easy nowadays, but don't have the incentive those blokes had.
Which city-state became the wealthiest and most powerful in eastern Africa?
Alexandria, named after it's founder the Macedonian Alexander the Great.
Why was the polis called framwork of the greek life?
The answer is: It is called the ''framework of Greek life'' because the polis played a key role during the history of the ancient Greeks lifes.
In what year was the Peloponnesian League formed?
It was formed as a league of Peloponnesian city-states led by Sparta about 505 BCE, though Sparta had earlier established alliances with several of the cities.
What were the macedonian fighting tactics?
The Macedonians were infamous for using the Phalanx formation with an innovative longer pike than other traditional pikes used in Greece. The Macedonian phalanx-men wielded 18-foot spears that could impale the enemy before they even came close.
Well fortunately, a Phalanx is:
- any of the bones of the fingers or toes
- any closely ranked crowd of people
- a body of troops in close array
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And fighting means:
- fight: the act of fighting; any contest or struggle; "a fight broke out at the hockey game"; "there was fighting in the streets"; "the unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap"
- active: engaged in or ready for military or naval operations; "on active duty"; "the platoon is combat-ready"; "review the fighting forces"
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- Combat, or fighting, is purposeful violent conflict intended to establish dominance over the opposition.
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- A fight or battle; an occasion on which people fight; engaged in war or other conflict; apt to provoke a fight
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- fighter - combatant: someone who fights (or is fighting)
- fighter - a high-speed military or naval airplane designed to destroy enemy aircraft in the air
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- The fighter is one of the standard playable character classes in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. A fighter is a versatile, weapons-oriented warrior class. The fighter is an adept warrior who fights using skill, strategy and tactics.
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So when you put them together, what does it means?
What would a pharaoh need to guide him through the under life?
In Ancient Egypt when a pharaoh died, they were entombed with certain things that were needed to get through the afterlife. These things included small carved Sabtis figures and pictures of what the pharaoh should be doing in the afterlife.
Why wasn't Philip II of Macedonia able to undertake an invasion of Asia?
Philip was assassinated by his personal bodyguard Pausanias of Orestis. Alexander took his place as king of the Greek kingdom of Macedonia and hegemon of a united Greece on the campaign against Persia.
