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Athenian ships had to sail approximately 1,000 kilometers (around 620 miles) from Athens to reach Sicily. This distance varied based on the specific departure point and the route taken, but the journey was significant and involved navigating around various islands in the Mediterranean Sea. The invasion of Sicily during the Peloponnesian War in 415 BCE was a major military expedition that required considerable resources and planning.
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Why was the Trireme built?
They were ships designed to ram other ships to sink them. They came about to counter the Persian threat as a noble in Athens convinced everyone (in Athens) that naval superiority was the best way to combat Persian force that used ships to invade Greece.
What was pericles accomplishments?
Pericles was an Athenian Archon and began the Golden Age of Athens. He was vocally against idleness and gave Athenian men jobs on the Athenian ships. He also invested a large portion of Athenian funds in building the city and creating monuments such as the Acropolis and the Parthenon.
Who was fighting Peloponnesian War?
As a VERY brief answer which may very well be wrong: After the Persian wars, most Greek cities started the Delian League, which was a pool of resources and ships and men contributed by the cities to keep the Persians under constant harassment from the sea. Athens eventually took control of the League and it became more of an Athenian empire than a League. Eventually all the other cities got cross and Sparta declared war on Athens. There was lots of fighting and the war was lost by Athens when the Athenians foolishly squandered a big army invading Sicily.
What city-state won the Persian War and why?
Many of the city-states united to defeat Persia. Sparta was elected to lead on both land and sea. Athens made a major contribution of ships. Athens' made more than a "contribution of ships." Since Sparta had few ships and little experience with warfare at sea at that time, the Spartian naval command was a place of honor only. The navy was primarily Athenian with a smattering of ships from other cities, and it was Athenian strategy and seamanship that brought about the victories at Salamis and Mycale in the Second Persian War that ended the Persian threat, freeing the Greek cities on the Ionian coast, and paving the way for Alexander's invasion of Persia in later years.
Why did Athens Have a large fleet of ships?
A fleet of ships is a bunch of ships together to make a aconimy
Did Sparta or Athens had more ship builders?
Athens built more ships.
What were the factors that brought about Athens defeat in the Peloponnesian War?
A sudden outbreak of plague that destroyed 2/3's of the Athenian population and a soon following defeat against Sparta's ally Syria in war. (What do you know you really DO use world history in real life)AddendumThe plague was a factor but the two thirds loss is questionable. And even after that setback, they did rather well for the next 20 years of the war. A more serious loss was the early death of Pericles which deprived them of his steadying hand, and left the democracy to being swayed the erratic demagogues.Other factors were:1. Athenian adventurousness - their foray in Sicily against Syracuse cost them dearly in manpower, ships and money, seriously weakening their military capacity.2. Persian financial support to the Spartan alliancewhich enabled them to assemble a fleet which could match the hitherto dominant Athenian fleet.
Athenian warships sank Persian boats with?
Often by ramming them with specially-constructed rams built into the ship structure. Persian ships did the same but being larger usually tried to board. The agility of the Athenian ships gave an advantage.
How many people from Athens died at Thermopylae?
There was no Athenian land contingent in the Greek force at Thermopylai. They were fully engaged in providing 180 ships (180x200 crew and marines = 36,000) to the Greek fleet for the simultaneous naval battle in the nearby strait of Artemesion.
Who was the athenian runner who spread the news of the victory of the Persians an Marathon?
It was 18,000 Athenian warriors who ran back after their successful battle at Marathon to protect Athens from assault by sea in their absence. They ran back when they realised that the Persian cavalry was heading to Athens on ships. They ran the 26 miles, arriving just as the Persian cavalry was disembarking to take the city. There is a fake story that Pheidippides ran back to tell of the Marathon victory. He was already dead, dying from exhaustion after running to Sparta to summon them to held repel the Persian invasion.
The bubonic plague reached Europe in 1347 when a fleet of Genoese ships arrived in?
The disease reached Europe in 1347 when a fleet of Genoese ships arrived in Messina, Sicily, from Caffa, a port city on the Black Sea.
How was Sparta finally able to defeat Athens in the Peloponnesian War?
Persia gave the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta the money to build a fleet of warships equal to Athens', and to pay the crews at double the Athenian rate to attract the best sailors. At the confrontation of the two fleets at Aigospotomai, Spartan commander Lysander waited until the Athenian ships crews were on shore buying their food from the local market and swooped on them, taking most on the beach before they could get to sea to fight. With its fleet gone, Athens was besieged with no means of importing food, and eventually had to surrender.
