Significance Of Marathon

Question 0

What it meant Bout Athens development

Answer 0

Absence of Spartans meant the Athenians where now a military force to be reckoned with
everyone turned to both Sparta and Athens now

Question 1

How did Marathon make Athens such a successful state

Answer 1

It became a cultural centre (philosophy, history, playwrights, art)
Became a leading state
Gained many political allies
Alliances turned into an empire
Much of the Greek world was subject to her power
,a ration had given them confidence to move forward and to become prominent in Greece

Question 2

The Delian leage

Answer 2

After the Persian defeat of 479BC the Greeks thought of how to defend themselves against the continuing threat.
Started by the Athenians
It’s treasury was at Delos
Members of the league paid tribute money or ships to the Athens
Changed into an empire

Question 3

The Parthenon

Answer 3

Built 40 years later by the Athenian king Pericles
It was a great temple built on the Acropolis in the centre of Athens
192 men on the procession around this (the dead at the battle)

Question 4

The effect of the Parthenon

Answer 4

To have their names put on a temple meant the highest honour possible
To be on the house of Athena their goddess

Question 5

Pausanias

Answer 5

1AD
A doctor
Wrote a guidebook
Mentions:
-slaves thought at marathon for the first time
-a separate grave for Militiades although he died later on
-you can hear the horses neighing and fighting all night
-the dead are worshipped
-the Athenians had a divine law that said any corpse must be hidden in earth
-the Persians were thrown in a trench without any inscription

Question 6

Can Aidan kickflip?

Answer 6

NEVER