The Persian-Greek Wars (499-479 BCE) A turning point in Greek History.

The Persian-Greek Wars (499-479 BCE)

A turning point in Greek History

Herodotus: Persian Wars

Over 600 poli made up the Hellenic world

The acropolis of Athens

The Greek contribution to political life:

• Individual members shared a sense of belonging to and participating in the polis.

• Community problems are caused by human beings and require human solutions.

• Laws expressed the rational mind of the community to insure its will and needs are met.

Cyrus the Great and his sons after him effectively

administered their large empire: • Divided into 20 provinces

(satrapies)

• Special agents who answered only to the king

• Use of an official language (Aramaic)

• Network of roads and postal system

• Common system of weights and measures

• Empire wide coinage

• Fusion of Near Eastern cultural traditions

• Promoted one religion: Zoroastrianism (Ahura Mazda & Ahriman)

• Cyrus the Great, was the world’s first world emperor to openly declare and guarantee the sanctity of human rights and individual freedom.

The Ionian Revolt, 499-493 BC

King Darius I, 521-486 BC

• Decided to punish the city of Athens for assisting the rebels during the Ionian Revolt of 499 BC.

Marathon

The Hoplite: Greek footsoldiers

Battle of Marathon, 490 BC

Battle of Marathon, 490 BC – Phaedippas brings the news to Athens

Themosticles:• Rushed the construction of 200 triremes• Organized Greek city-states into a defensive

alliance that included Sparta

King Xerxes, 486-465 BC

• He sought to avenge his father’s defeat.

• In 480 BC, his army of 360,000 foot soldiers and 800 ships marched over a bridge across the Dardanelles

Thermopylae

King Xerxes & the Second Persian War, 480-479 BC

The Athenians fled the city which was sacked

and burned to the ground by the Persians

• But, the Athenians had a plan…

Battle of Salamis

• The Persian Wars were decisive in the history of the West. Had the Greeks been defeated, the cultural and political vitality we associate and inherit from the Greeks would never have evolved.

• The confidence and pride from these victories propelled Greece and Athens, in particular, to its “Golden Age.”

Pericles, 499-429 BC

• Pericles was the central figure in Athens during its Golden Age

Politics and Govt Philosophy

Math & 5th c. BCE Athens

Science The Golden Age Poetry

The Age of Pericles

Art, Sculpture History

Architecture

Drama/Theatre

The creation of the Delian League, 478 BC

The corruption of the Delian League

The Persian-Greek Wars (499-479 BCE) A turning point in Greek History.

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