Greek Colonization
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By 8
th
to 6
th
(750 to 550) B.C. Greek colonies,
Magna Graecia
to Romans (Great
Greece), spread into Italy and Sicily, Spain to Asia Minor
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Spread out, allowing poleis space and preventing civil wars to extent
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Encouraged trade and industry throughout Mediterranean
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Over 1,000 poleis—crisis of money and aristocracy in small %
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Tyrants emerged between 700-500 B.C. through popularity races and support
from hoplites and military
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At end of tyrannical states, they had provided econ prosperity, increased
comm., and a sense of individuality and unique cultural changes
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Sparta and Athens main states, different governments and cultures
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Persian War—Battle of Marathon, Thermoplyae (300), Plataea and Mycale
Peloponnesian Wars
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The Delian League soon formed followed by Athenian empire
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First Peloponnesian War (460 B.C.) between Athens and Sparta led to Thirty
Years’ Peace giving formal recognition to Athenian Empire
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Under Pericles, Athens developed freest government yet seen
o
Popular assembly approved state’s decisions
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Judicial Decisions reviewed by random citizens
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Women’s responsibility to produce male heirs to oikos, or households
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Great Peloponnesian War started in 432 B.C. when Sparta declared war on
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- Spring '07
- HUNZIKER
- Ancient Greece, Peloponnesian War, Civil War, polis, Great Peloponnesian War, B.C. Greek colonies, Polis Socrates
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