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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Notes 2/24/10

  • Athens beat Persians in 480 BC
  • Athens flourished during the Pericles Age
  • Athens and Sparta begin fighting again
  • Battle in the plains of Attica for several years
  • Athenians built the Long Walls from the harbor to Athens
  • Athenians get stuck in between the walls
  • Plague breaks out and most of them die
  • Athenians plan attack Sicily because of their alliance with Sparta
  • Someone committed mass vandalism through Athens
  • Alcibiades political enemies convinced everyone that is was him
  • Many people think Alcibiades told Spartans about the Athenians plan
  • Greatest defeat in Athens history
  • Alexander the Great was Aristotle's apprentice
  • Becomes king after his father is assassinated
  • Decides to invade Persia and conquer it
  • Ruled most of the known world by the time he was 24
  • Goes to Troy to start conquest
  • Legend saying that the person who could undo the Gordian Knot could conquer the world
  • Alexander decides to try to untie it
  • He slices the knot in half
  • Hailed as a King in Egypt because he defeated Persia

Acropolis:
Persians burned everything on it
Came back and rebuilt it
Wall surrounding is a memorial
Trees are grove of dianices
theater of dionecis
The Acropolis explains the Greek history
Parthenon is most important piece of Doric Archtitecture
A temple for Athena

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