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Introduces the Persian threat to the Greek city-states and explains the cooperation between Athens and Sparta. It covers the Battle of Marathon and the origin of the marathon race.
during this process of evolution towards demos greeks faced with a challenging problem the massive persian empire around 550 bc began to constitute a big threat for the greeks it was the main adversary power against the greek city-states whichwere led by atons the dalian league was formed by all ancient greek city-states by colonies of athens and sparta under the leadership of atons against the pressing outside enemy classical greek civilization was in competition with the persian onepersia wanted to capture greek colonials to obtain their wealth trade networks persia organized campaigns against the greek land persian wars lasted from 500 bc to 449 bc the persian threat led to the cooperation of athens and sparta persiansbecame closer to atons during the battle of maritime in 490 bc it was fought on the maritime plain of attica region of athens when the persians were approaching the region attendant general miltiardis took the command and weakened the
center of his outnumbered force to strengthen its wings this led to a confusion among the persians his strategy was successful and attendance was victorious according to the tale during the war filipinos run 25 miles almost 42 kilometers frommarathon to athens to give the message of persian's defeat from this event comes the marathon race of the olympics the olympic games of modern times began in 1896 and greek runner spiridon lewis won the first marathon race and
Describes later Persian attacks, Greek resistance, and the eventual retreat of Persia. It ends with Alexander the Great finally defeating the Persians and Athens gaining greater control.
an interesting coincidence is that like fidopidus a long time before spiridon lewis also carried messages he was a posner however during another attack in 408 bc persian army managed to inmate the greek peninsula it was a great successfor the persians they captured atons and destroyed the city internal play athens and spartans blocked the persian army greeks showed a success and they managed to make persians to retreat but this was not the certain defeat of thepersians they just retreated from athens in 449 bc they stayed on the greek frontiers to observe the the right time to attack again persons continued to exist in the borderlands until alexander the great at a later time ultimatelydefeated persians and made retreat them to their original borders after persian's defeat athens became a ruler of its own that penis cities became completely dependent on athenian rule without having voice in politics now let's talk about briefly about
Shifts to the structure of the Greek economy, including farming, trade, and the importance of grain imports. It also explains Greece's commercial ties with Egypt and the founding of trading centers.
economy in the ancient greece greek people initially were invading and warlike group who settled down for agriculture in their mainland and asian islands classical greece depended on farming aristocracy based on ownership of large estates green mainland was rockyregion and mountainous which was unsuitable for good green production therefore trade mostly was dependent on sea going trade and colonials cash crops like olives grapes were available green was important traditional grain growing was done only in thessaly populationof greek and later hellenistic growth was mostly rural even though political and cultural activities occurred in city-states mediterranean culture was market-oriented it was designed to produce for sale import of basic food was expensive therefore this was the basicmotive to search for access to adequate grain supplies greeks were in close interaction with the egyptian civilization around 606 bc greeks had given support to pharaoh samtik who regained control of egypt from assyrian control his victory opened the
way for the increase in trade and communication hence greeks founded a trading town named rukratis on the western egyptian coastline in nile river delta around 620 bc how about the role of slavery in economy greek economy developed as
Explains how slavery expanded alongside trade and inequality in Greek society. It also mentions Aristotle's justification of slavery and notes that some slaves could earn money and eventually be freed.
trade rose and cities grow however as the inequalities widened slavery increased the source of seizing slaves was colonization and frequent wars classical mediterranean society was heavily dependent on slavery like mesopotamia green philosopher aristotelis justified slavery saying without slaveshow would aristocrats learn what must be learned to maintain culture or have time to cultivate political virtue in athens slaves enjoyed independence and could earn money of their own and could be
freed