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    The document summarizes ancient Greek history from 800 BC to 146 BC. It describes the major periods of Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic Greece. It then focuses on the Persian Wars between Greece and Persia from 492 BC to 449 BC, where the Greeks resisted Persian invasion and expansion. It discusses the formation of the Delian League led by Athens and the cultural achievements during the Athenian Golden Age under Pericles. The document concludes with the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta from 431 BC to 404 BC, and the subsequent conquests of Philip II and Alexander the Great that spread Greek culture throughout the known world.

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    The document summarizes ancient Greek history from 800 BC to 146 BC. It describes the major periods of Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic Greece. It then focuses on the Persian Wars between Greece and Persia from 492 BC to 449 BC, where the Greeks resisted Persian invasion and expansion. It discusses the formation of the Delian League led by Athens and the cultural achievements during the Athenian Golden Age under Pericles. The document concludes with the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta from 431 BC to 404 BC, and the subsequent conquests of Philip II and Alexander the Great that spread Greek culture throughout the known world.

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    The document summarizes ancient Greek history from 800 BC to 146 BC. It describes the major periods of Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic Greece. It then focuses on the Persian Wars between Greece and Persia from 492 BC to 449 BC, where the Greeks resisted Persian invasion and expansion. It discusses the formation of the Delian League led by Athens and the cultural achievements during the Athenian Golden Age under Pericles. The document concludes with the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta from 431 BC to 404 BC, and the subsequent conquests of Philip II and Alexander the Great that spread Greek culture throughout the known world.

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    Ancient greece

    The Archaic period (c. 800 – c. 500


    BC),
    The Classical period (c. 500 – 323 BC)
    Hellenistic period (323–146 BC)
    The civilization of ancient Greece has
    been immensely influential on
    politics, philosophy, science, and the
    arts.
    Persian War(492 BC to 449 BC)
    Reason of the Persian War
    • The Ionians were Greeks that lived along the
    coast of Turkey. They were conquered by the
    Persians. When the Ionians decided to revolt
    they asked Athens and other Greek cities for
    help. The other Greek cities sent ships and
    weapons, but were quickly defeated. The
    Persians didn't like this and decided to
    conquer the rest of the Greek cities in order to
    keep them under control.
    Persian War (499-449 BC)
    •  All the Greek communities had long lived under the
    threat of invasion by Persia, and in the years between
    492 and 479 B.C. the Greeks and Persians fought a
    series of battles known as the Persian wars.
    • The
    Persian Empire was the largest and most powerful em
    pire in the world at the time of the Persian Wars. They
    controlled land that stretched from Egypt all the way t
    o India.
    Darius I, King of Persia, decided he wanted to conquer
    the Greeks in 490 BC.
    • Athens and Sparta ( city-states fought each other), but
    Delian League(478 B.C.)

    • The Delian League, an alliance of city-states led


    by Athens , is founded.
    • all league members were entitled to an equal
    voice in decision making , but Athens was the
    strongest member and began to dominate the
    league policy.
    • In 454 B.C the Athenians removed the league’s
    treasury from Delos to Athens. They used the
    wealth to create the Athenian golden age.
    Pericles
    The political architect of Athen’s Golden Age
    was the statesman Pericles (495-429 B.C).

    Pericles leadership made Athens the political


    and cultural jewel of Greece.The city enters a
    great age of building and supports a large
    number of artists and philosophers. At that
    heart of the reconstruction program lay a plan
    to rebuild acropolis that the Persians had
    destroyed.
    Parthenon 447 BC-432

    one of the world's greatest cultural monuments(enduring


    symbol of Ancient Greece and western civilization)
    • It was built according to mathematicle
    proportion
    Discobolus by Myron
    Coutesans in vase painting
    Peloponesian war (431 - 404 BC)
    • Reasons for Peloponesian War
    Athens possessed a strong empire, an unrivalled
    navy, and a rich treasury. Sparta formed an
    alliance with Cornith and some other Greek city
    states.
    Athens lost the war
    • Athenians began to die from a plague. Hundreds of
    people died
    • Pericles died – Athenian general who had been
    leading the war
    • Politicians fought for control
    • Persians financed Sparta and its allies which helped
    to weaken Athens. Persia financed Sparta on the
    condition that the Greek states in Asia Minor be
    given to Persia. This weakened Greek unity
    Peloponesian war
    • The rule of Sparta was short lived. The next fifty
    years saw the constant clash of city states.
    • Philip of Macedon conquered Greece and united
    the city-states.
    • After the death of Phillip II (336 B.C), Alexander
    ascends to the throne of Macedon
    • Alexander defeated Persia(Darius III of Persia)
    with the help of a united Greece which had been
    the dream of Alexander’s father.
    • Alexander the great of Macedon had
    conquered much of the world from Syria,
    Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia and Central Asia
    in the east, even as far as India. After his death
    his kingdom was split among his generals
    Alexander the great (one of the worlds great empire builder)
    Empire of Alexander the great
    The City of Alexandria in Egypt became the intellectual center of
    the Mediterranean world for centuries and its great contained
    the learning of the Ancients
    The City of Alexandria in Egypt

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