Sparta and Athens after 479 BC

Question 1

war in Asia Minor against Persians

Answer 1

led by Athenians as Spartans did not have a fleet

Question 2

a helot revolt in Sparta

Answer 2

took place in Messenia in 464 BC as a result of a severe earthquake. it took almost 4 years to suppress it

Question 3

Cimon

Answer 3

Athenian general and statesman c. 470-461 BC, conservative in nature and desired no conflict with Sparta (ostracized for that in 461 BC). he was sent to Sparta in 461 BC after Spartans pleaded for help. He was sent back without thought

Question 4

461-446 BC

Answer 4

Athenians waged war against Sparta in response to the rebuff of Cimon

Question 5

Spartan stagnation

Answer 5

class of full citizens dwindled as birth rates fell and degradation of impoverished Spartiates to second-class citizen; even less privileged Spartiates who were a minority among the perioikoi and the helots