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World History I

World History I. Unit Five Block Nine Lecture The Peloponnesian War . Make sure that you are viewing this in “Slide Show” format. Click on “Slide Show” and push “from beginning”. Move through the presentation by pushing on the “up” and “down” arrows” on your keyboard. This was scary!.

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World History I

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  1. World History I Unit Five Block NineLecture The Peloponnesian War

  2. Make sure that you are viewing this in “Slide Show” format. Click on “Slide Show” and push “from beginning”. Move through the presentation by pushing on the “up” and “down” arrows” on your keyboard This was scary! Click me It took a long time for this to happen!

  3. The Two Major players Click me • Athens (“The Greek City State”) • On the Balkan Peninsula, • Powerful navy • Center of the Greek World • Sparta (powerful yet wanting) • On the Peloponnesian Peninsula • Powerful land-based army, • Not so much when it comes to importance

  4. Four Causes of the Peloponnesian War Click Here • Sparta – fears a powerful Athens (Athens is only 94 miles away) • Both City-States want to control the Greek World • Athens dominates the Dalian League (yellow on map) and thus control most of Greece through its Allies • Sparta creates the Peloponnesian League (red on map)to protect itself and its allies against Sparta

  5. Fortress Athens (431 BCE/BC) Click Here • Athens knows that Sparta will Attack • Athens cannot beat the Spartan army • Pericles builds a wall around Athens and the road from the city to its port to protect the city from the Spartans • The Spartans cannot attack and the Athenians use their navy to win the battle

  6. It’s all downhill from here for the Athenians! Click Here • Pericles Dies (uh oh!) • Pericles is the mastermind of Athenian society • The Athenians cannot find a good leader • Athens makes multiple mistakes during the war • Fortress Athens backfires! A major portion of the population dies from the plague • The Athenians try to take over the Greek world and keep losing over and over again • The Athenians go all the way to Italy and try to take over the Island of Sicily and fail badly (the Spartans help the Sicilians) • The Spartans finally win and beat the Athenians

  7. But it’s a very long war (431 BCE/BC to 404 BCE/BC) Click Here • Both Sparta and Athens lose a lot of people fighting this war • The war leads to the end of democracy as we know it in Athens (The death of Socrates is one example of the problem) • The war caused a curtailment or slowing of Greek cultural growth and achievement (this is what Plato is talking about) • The city-states are now isolated from each other (there is no mutual protection from outside forces)

  8. Macedonian Conquest is imminent! Click Here Phil Phil’s son Alexander

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