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Greco-Persian War
Persian Empire, 521-486 B.C.
Persia too strong, Greeks rebel At first—Grk city-states are weak b/c not
unitedEventually unite Defeat Persian army after 50 years of
fightingBattle of Marathon—1st major victoryBattles of Thermopylae—Grks
outnumbered, 300 Spartans fend off Persians in support of the other Grks
Battle of Salamis—Naval Battle, Persian downfall
Athens emerges as major power in Greek WorldCreate Delian League (alliance of Grk
City-States)Pericles leads them into a “Golden Age”
Greco-Persian War: 499–449 BC
Achievements of
Greece:
The Greek Golden
Age
Greek Philosophy• Socrates– Sought truths about big concepts such
as truth, justice, and virtue– Education and questioning
• Plato–Most famous work is The Republic–What is reality?
• Aristotle– Used logic and reason to study natural
world.• Ordered thinking, making deductions
– Taught Alexander the Great
Art & Architecture • Statues lifelike, active, idealistic• Paintings: on pottery, detailed,
red/black, told stories
Art & Architecture • Aim for perfection &
symmetry • Parthenon – Dedicated to goddess Athena– Wealth of Athens
Parthenon in Nashville
Temple of Erectheon
Treasury of Delphi
Greek Drama• Tragedies: plays that told stories of human
suffering that usually ended in disaster.– Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides
• Comedies: humorous plays that mocked people or customs.– Aristophanes
History• Herodotus “first
historian” or “father of history”
• Thucydides showed the need to avoid bias.
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Science: Medicine• Hippocrates & the Hippocratic Oath – all
patients must be treated regardless of class
Science: Astronomy• Sun was larger than earth• Determined earth’s true size.• Ptolemy thought the earth was in the
center –believed for 14 centuries.
Greek Engineering
• Archimedes–Lever –Water
Distribution and Pumps–War
Machines
Give me a lever and a place to stand and I will move the earth.
Greek Mathematics
• Euclid—modern geometry
• Pi—circumference of circle
• Pythagoras–explain world in
mathematical terms– Theory about
relationships of sides of right triangle (Pythagorean Theorem)
Pericles on Athens’s Democracy
Athens v. SpartaSparta as military Power,
Athens has moneySparta allies with Persia
Plague breaks out in AthensKills 1/3 population
Athens is defeatedWeakens Greece again
Peloponnesian War: 431-404 BC