After two disastrous attempts to conquer Greece in the 5th Century B.C.E, the Persian leadership had quickly realized the value of Greek hoplites in close order battle and actively sought to hire as many of them as it could to fight in their own domestic disputes. Some of the contingents...
Fought between the allies ofSpartaand the empire ofAthens, the cripplingPeloponnesian Warpaved the way for the Macedonian takeover of Greece byPhilip II of Macedonand, following that,Alexander the Great's empire. Before the Peloponnesian War, the city-states (poleis) of Greece had worked togethe...
DO NOW Turn in your museum activity. If you weren’t here yesterday, the PPT with the assignment is on the back counter in the history file organizer. Why.