• Created after the Persian Wars• Greek city-states unite• 200 city-states join (Sparta says no)• Defensive alliance• Athens becomes leader• Used the navy to control the Aegean Sea

• Athenian General• “First citizen”• Dream = Athens perfect city• Rebuilt palaces & temples• Rebuilt Parthenon

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• War = Athens vs. Sparta

• Lasted 30 years• Ended 404 B.C.• Athens surrender to

Sparta• Sparta sets up an

Oligarchy• Athens revolts• Athens restores

Democracy

• Pericles allowed Athenians into Parthenon

• Overcrowding led to illness

• 1/3 of Athenians died from disease

• 338 B.C. Phillip II of Macedonia conquered Greece

• Focused on thinking process

• Search for truth• Taught people

how to think• Ask questions• Socratic method

• He was viewed as threat

• Accused of the following:

• Denying gods• Corrupting young• Attempting to

overthrow the government

• Student of Socrates• Wrote all Socrates’

writing• Set up a school to

train government leaders

• Believed only wise should rule

• Wrote The Republic

• The study of government

• Pupil of Plato• Using senses to discover

the laws that govern.