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Period Two 600 B.C.E. – 600 C.E.

Period Two 600 B.C.E. – 600 C.E. Organization and Reorganization of Human Societies. Greeks. 477 – 404 B.C.E. Promised to defend members from Persian attacks Worked to drive Persians out of Greek territories in Asia Minor Most of the chief treasury officials were Athenians.

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Period Two 600 B.C.E. – 600 C.E.

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  1. Period Two600 B.C.E. – 600 C.E. Organization and Reorganization of Human Societies

  2. Greeks • 477 – 404 B.C.E. • Promised to defend members from Persian attacks • Worked to drive Persians out of Greek territories in Asia Minor • Most of the chief treasury officials were Athenians • Delian League & Greco Persian Wars

  3. Athenian Empire Headquarters moved to Athens Athens slowly began to take control over the other city-states • He demanded • strict loyalty from other city-states • payments from city-states • All city-states use Athenian money • He allowed • lower class male citizens to run for public office • public officials to be paid Pericles- popular general during the Greco-Persian Wars

  4. Peloponnesian Wars 431 to 404 BC • After the War: • All city-states were weakened • Many casualties • Farms destroyed • Greeks don’t trust each other • Future unification nearly impossible • Sparta tried ruling all of Greece • Rebellions resulted in more wars • Vulnerable to attack from foreign invaders Faravahar Guardian Angel

  5. Philipp II - Macedonian • Conquerors Greek city-states • Achieves political unification 338 B.C.E. Olympias Sarissa Father of Alexander Introduced phalanx infantry

  6. Alexander the Great 333-323 B.C.E. • Conquerors the Persian Empire • Responsible for the spread of Greek Culture – Hellenistic Era (323-20 B.C.E.) • Dies 323 B.C.E. - Empire split among his generals • Ptolemaic - Egypt • Seleucid - Persia Cleopatra VII, the last Macedonian descendent of Ptolemy committed suicide in 30 BC, after which Egypt was added to the Roman Empire. 

  7. Roman Empire 200 B.C.E – 200 C.E. Rape of the Sabine Women Intervention of the Sabine Women Jacques-Louis David 1799 • Rags to riches • Not as advanced as their Etruscan neighbors • Began with kings • Becomes a republic 509 B.C.E. • Patricians and Plebians • Public assemblies and tribunes • Caesar Augustus 27 B.C.E. -14 C.E. • Punic Wars – Phoenicians 264 -146BCE • Hannibal and Scipio Africanus (218-203 B.C.E.) • Piecemeal Empire making • Collapse • Byzantine 476 C.E.

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