PELOPONNESIAN WAR

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PELOPONNESIAN WAR

• TEMPERS EXPLODE

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3 MAIN CAUSES

• Athens became too powerful.
• Athens became a naval empire.
• Athenian settlers began to move into lands of
  other city-states.

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SPARTA BANDS AGAINST ATHENS

• Sparta lead a league of city-states to stand up
  to the Delian League.
• Called Peloponnesian League
• 431 B.C. Sparta declares war on Athens
  Peloponnesian War

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THE WAR RAGES.

• Sparta
• Better land-based military
• Cannot be attacked by sea
• Athens
• Better navy
• Strike Spartan allies by sea

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THE WAR RAGES ON.

• Sparta
• Cuts off Athenian food supply by destroying crops
  and countryside
• Athens
• Avoids battles on land and relies on sea
• Pericles moves people from surrounding areas into
  Athens

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CONSEQUENCES OF WAR

• Athens-
• Overcrowding
• Plague
• 1/3 of Athens perish
• Pericles dies
• Truce signed
• Cities, crops and people lost
• King Phillip II of Macedonia takes over

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HOMEWORK

• Explain how Pericles led to the fall of Athens-
• 1 paragraph essay
• Must use complete sentences
• Must find support within your reading and
  identify it in your paragraph

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REVIEW

1. The Athenians practiced ____________ democracy.
2. __________ was the strongest leader of Athens.
3. The Greek city-states formed the ______________
   for mutual protection from Perisa.
4. Name one reason for the war between Athens and
   Sparta.
5. Athens lost 1/3 of its people because of _______.
6. To end the war, Athens and Sparta signed a(n)
   ___________.