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The Peloponnesian Conflict Flashcards

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431-404

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Peloponnesian War

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What were the first ten years of the Peloponnesian War called?

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The Archidamian War

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435

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War of Corinth and Corcyra over Apidaumos

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Megarian Decree

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Pericles declared Megara was excluded from all ports of the Athenian Empire; economic doom for Megara

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Peloponnesian League

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Purpose was to protect its members
Sparta was the head
Included Thebes, Phocis, Corinth, and Megara

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Who led the Athenian fleet at the beginning of the Peloponnesian War?

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Phormio

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6
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434

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Alliance between Corcyra and Athens

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432

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Potidaea asserts her independence from Athens

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8
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431

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Sparta declares war on Athens

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430

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Plague in Athens

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What was the Plague?

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Scarlet Fever

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How many soldiers died from the plague?

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One-fourth

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When was the trial of Pericles?

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430

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Pericles was charged with-

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Misuse of public funds

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Pericles had been indirectly attacked through-

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Phidias, Anaxagorus, and Aspasia

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429

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Pericles dies from the plague

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Who was the last serious rival of Pericles?

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Thucydides

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What city-state is known as “teacher of all Hellas, of all the world”?

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Athens

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18
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Who succeeded Pericles?

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Cleon the Tanner

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19
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Name all significant demagogues.

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Cleon the Tanner
Cleophon
Hyperbolus

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20
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428

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Massacre at Mytilene barely

General Packes was sent to execute the whole island

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21
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427

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Sparta captures Plataea

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22
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426

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Sparta finds Heraclea

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23
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425

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Siege of Sphacteria

Sparta’s first surrender

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424

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Battle of Delium

Battle of Amphipolis

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Who saved Alcibiades life at the Battle of Delium?

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Socrates

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Liberator of Hellas

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Brasidas

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27
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422

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Battle of Amphipolis

Brasidas and Cleon die

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28
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423

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One Year’s Truce

Negotiated by Nicias

29
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421

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Peace of Nicias

Also known as “50 Years Peace”

30
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Why did Sparta agree to the Peace of Nicias?

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They feared a helot revolt

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Thucydides

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Naval commander banished for negligence after the first conflict at Amphipolis. Wrote the Peloponnesian War.

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Aristophanes

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Wrote “Clouds”, Socrates was the principle character

33
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449

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2nd Sacred War

34
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Who led the faction, composed of aristocrats, opposed to continuing the Peloponnesian War?

35
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Who led the faction, composed of Merchants, in favor of continuing the Peloponnesian War?

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Alcibiades & Hyperbolus

36
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How long did the Peace of Nicias last?

37
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420

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Alcibiades chosen strategos

38
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Alcibiades was raised in the house of ________, his uncle.

39
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418

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Battle of Mantinea

40
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417

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Hyperbolus becomes the last person to be ostracized.

41
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Massacre at Melos

A

416

“MIGHT MAKES RIGHT”

42
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“Trojan Women”

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Play inspired by the Massacre at Melos
Exposed the Peloponnesian War’s brutality
Written by Euripides

43
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415

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Expedition to Syracuse

Downfall of Alcibiades

44
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414

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Siege of Syracuse

45
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413

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Defeat at Syracuse

46
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Who led the Expedition to Syracuse?

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Nicias, Alcibiades, and Lamachus

47
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How did Alcibiades cause his downfall?

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Knock the extremities off the statues of Hermes & publicly mimicked the Eleusian Mysteries

48
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Who accused Alcibiades of mimicking the Eleusian Mysteries?

49
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Who led the Siege of Syracuse?

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Nicias, Eurymedon, and Demosthenes

50
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Who led the Syracusians during the Athenian’s Siege?

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Hermocrates and Gylippus

51
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What caused Nicias’s hesitation during the Siege?

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An eclipse of the moon

52
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What Athenian leaders died because of the Defeat at Syracuse?

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Eurymedon, Nicias, and Demosthenes

53
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How could Athenians captured at Syracuse be set free?

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Recite Euripides’ “Trojan Women”

54
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410

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Revolt of the Four Hundred***
Battle of Cynossema
Restoration of Democracy***
Alcibiades Recalled***
Battle of Cyzicus
55
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Who led the Revolt of Four Hundred?

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What replaced the Council of Four Hundred

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The Council of Five Thousand

57
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Who led Athens with Alcibiades, after he was recalled?

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Theramenes and Thrasybulus

58
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407

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Alcibiades is deposed again
Battle of Notion
Battle of Arginusae

59
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Battle of Aegospotami

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405
Lysander led Sparta; Conon led Athens
Athenian fleet was destroyed and Conon fled

60
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Decharchies

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Ruling bodies of 10 established by Lysander

61
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Who insisted the assassination of Alcibiades?

62
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404

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Surrender of Athens

63
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Terms of Peace

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Athens must tear down the long walls
Oligarchs must be recalled in Athens
Athens must destroy all but 12 ships of her navy
Athens must aid Sparta in any further war

64
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Rule of Thirty

Aka Thirty Tyrants

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Oligarchy set up in Athens by Lysander

65
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Who was not a member of the Thirty Tyrants?

66
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Who led the Thirty Tyrants?

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Critias and Theramenes

67
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Who ordered the death of Theramenes?

68
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403

A

Restoration of Democracy

69
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Who restored democracy to Athens?

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Thrasybulus

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