Notes- Greece/Persia

Athens was in the province of Attica
In between Athens and Sparta is Corinth
TROJAN HORSE STORY
Anatolia-Old Turkey
Paris (royalty of Anatolia) went to Greece to meet kings @ wedding
Golden apple goes to fairest goddess
Paris was the one to chose who is the fairest
Aphrodite won by giving him what he wanted (the woman of his choice)
He wanted a married woman named Helen
He and Helen's husband are at war for many years
Horse

Herodotus- grandfather of history writing (u can wiki this)

Persians give Greeks ultimatum- become one of us or we destroy your city.
Some Greeks didn't listen some did
They invaded
Xerxes leads invasion through the biospheres waterway which connects to Istanbul & black sea
They enter northern Greece- Thrace

Wiki Look up Battle of Thermopylae
Wiki Sparta

Look up ancient Greece @ metmuseum.org

King Leonidas

Phalanx

Chance of surviving war were better then having kids

4 AD Greece wins war against Persia

Pericles convinces Greece to make navy with the money

Peloponnesian wars- Sparta held off Persians, Athens gets credit

Sparta goes to war with Athens

ATHENS- "long walls" two walls (like on highway but closer together) starts @ port of Piraeus all the way 2 athens
Spartans lose of long walls
The plague hits during this time
Come to truce but Athenians have great losses
Athens needs to regain glory
Sicily had Greek colonies friendly w/ Sparta
Alcibiades came up w/ plan to attack Sicily
Vandalism over Athens
He's so angry that he gives up the Athenian strategy
Athens is being waited for in Sicily