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Title: PELOPONNESIAN WAR


1
PELOPONNESIAN WAR
  • TEMPERS EXPLODE

2
3 MAIN CAUSES
  • Athens became too powerful.
  • Athens became a naval empire.
  • Athenian settlers began to move into lands of
    other city-states.

3
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

4
THE WAR RAGES.
  • Sparta
  • Better land-based military
  • Cannot be attacked by sea
  • Athens
  • Better navy
  • Strike Spartan allies by sea

5
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

6
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

7
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

8
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)
    ___________.
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