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Notes on video lecture:
The Peloponnesian War and Internal Greek Struggles
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on May 29, 2015 (go to class or lectures)


Choose from these words to fill the blanks below:
hoplon, Spartans, camped, bloody, Minor, mass, field, officer, larger, naval, exhausted, Persians, innovations, sacrilege, Theban, Alexander, influence, wood, dominance, laws, hundreds, cohesion, places, dominant, breakthroughs, Peloponnesian, left, annihilate, Epaminondas, Aegean, phalanx, scrums, peace, protect, died, squandered, second, Sacred, hole
Athenians in half of the 5th century BC
recapture the Islands from the Persians
push the Persians away from the coast of Asia
450 BC signed
gave Greek cities on coast of Asia Minor the right to follow their own
soon the ever quarreling gave the Persians reasons to reassert their there
431-404 BC War
400-350 BC Sparta, Thebes and Athens struggled against each other to assert over the Greek world
Spartans the initiative that they had gained through their victory in the Peloponnesian War
Thebans got the upper hand
because of military
infantry men usually wore helmets, breastplates, and carried a spear and a shield made of with a metal rim
shield is called a which is where we get the word hoplites
hoplites were arranged in lines
city-states would send their armies out into an open , e.g. the land in dispute
line of the hoplite armies would close into each other and clash
the goal was to have
the object was to break open a in the other line
the goal usually was not to your enemy but to push them off the land itself
of course it was an extremely kind of warfare, characterized by thrashing and thrusting
took a great deal of courage
hoplites needed to train and be prepared to fight together and each other
important to stay in their places in the lines to prevent
each hoplite was responsible not only for protecting himself but the person next to him
their shield they held in their hand could only protect the left side of their body
the man on your right had to protect you as well
coordination and was absolutely essential and critical
you all fought together, or you all together
because most city-states had populations of male citizens that were more or less consistent
most city-states could only put into the field or a few thousand hoplite warriors
only 1,2,3,4,5 or at most 8 lines of these warriors
most of these battles resulting in these kinds of , both sides pushing together to make a breakthrough
this is where the military innovations become important
had a much population
got the idea of extending the lines, the sum total which was called a not just to 8 ranks but to an unbelievable 50 ranks
made it easier to bash through the lines of their opponents
Thebans also trained up a kind fo special forces unit called a Band
150 pairs of elite soldiers who trained together from the time their were very young, together, and, there is evidence, were actually lovers as well
fought side by side in battle
put into battle at crucial moments and at important
using these military innovations, the Thebans were able to defeat the in two important battles
371 BC
400 Spartans of the class were killed
Thebes gained the upper hand in Greater Greece
362 BC
unfortunately, their great tactical and innovative genius, , was killed in battle
the Athenians in the fourth century
won alliances
pursued the
dominated the Aegean
ran out of money
became as well
the middle of the fourth century
the three powers in Greece
Sparta
Thebes
Athens
had worn themselves out, fighting amongst each other
the result was that after more than a century of struggle Persia was yet again in the position to be the influence up to and including the coast of Asia minor
paying back Persia for its acts of ancient , was a rhetorical pipe dream
there was only one potential threat to Persia from the West
the Kingdom of Macedon and a boy growing up there named
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Spelling Corrections:
Peloponesian ⇒ Peloponnesian
Ideas and Concepts:
From the turning-points-in-history department, via this morning's Alexander the Great class: "By the middle of the fourth century BC, the three main powers on the Greece homeland, Sparta, Thebes, and Athens, had worn themselves out fighting amongst each other. The result was that after more than a century of struggle, Persia was yet again in the position to be the dominant influence up to and including the coast of Asia minor. For the Greeks, paying back Persia for its acts of ancient sacrilege was a rhetorical pipe dream, and now there was only one potential threat to Persia from the West:the Kingdom of Macedonia and a little boy growing up there named Alexander."
