Pelopennesian War: Delian League vs. Aegean League Flashcards
1
Q
A civil war
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- Delian League: Controlled by Athens… A naval power! VS. Aegean League: Controlled by Sparta…A military power!
2
Q
trouble brewing…
A
- Athens power increasing: controls trade routes of grain and other foods
- Sparta threatened
3
Q
Sparta’s ultimatum
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- 431 B.C.
- free all the cities under your control or face war
4
Q
war begins…
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- Athens behind the city wall: did not want to fight Sparta on land
- Sparta burned countryside
5
Q
Athens plague
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- Pericles waits out Sparta… but plague hits
- 1 out of 4 people died… including Pericles
6
Q
deadlock
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- death in most families
- food scarce
- Sparta burned countryside
- labor short, slaves escaped from Sparta
- Athens won sea battles
- Sparta won land battles
- Sparta gains an ally…
7
Q
Persians are back
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- Persia helps Sparta with money for naval fleet
- Persia hoped city-states would destroy each other
8
Q
end is near
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- Sparta gains control by not fighting: took Athenian boats left for supplies
- Athens barricades themselves inside walls
- Spartans but of supplies
- Athens gives up 404 B.C.
9
Q
results of war
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- 27 year war
- cities and crops destroyed
- economic and military power lost
- democracy declines
- united Greece over
- Philip II of Macedon eyes Greece
