1. Agenda Warm Up Ancient Greece- Athens and Sparta
A Comparison of Athens and Sparta using primary sources
HW: Comparing Sparta and Athens if not finished in class

2. List 3 known facts of the Hellenistic world
Warm Up
List 3 known facts of the Hellenistic world

3. Warm Up
SOAPSTONE POV

4. Ancient Greece c BCE

7. The formation of the Polis
The Greek Polis was an autonomous political and social unit.
Geography of Greece required this form of Civilization.
City-States were independent of one another, and this led to tension.

8. Sparta Made the effort to create a military state.
Life is rigidly organized.
Training starts at 7
Enters military at 20
Works until he is 60
Oligarchy, led by two kings.
Phalanx formation 
Ephors used to maintain conduct.
Deliberate isolation
Sparta

9. Athens Considered a tyranny under Pisistratus and early rulers.
Solon reforms had attempted to avoid this.
Cleisthenes creates Council of 500, assembly had final say on all laws.
Adopts traditions from other cultures.
Kouros adapted from Egypt
Utilized part of the Phoenician Alphabet.

10. The Persian War Fundamental differences and territory leads to war.
Xerxes wants to finish the job that Darius I started.
Themistocles begins development of a Navy in Athens.
Sparta and Athens Ally.
Major Battles
Thermopylae
Sacking of Athens
Salamis

11. A Golden Age
Delian League formed, all city states paid tribute to Athens.
Pericles expanded Democracy.
Tensions rise between Sparta and Athens.
Art and Architecture flourish.

12. The Peloponnesian Conflict
431 BCE
Sparta forms Peloponnesian League.
Pericles knew Sparta was militarily dominant on land. Use Navy to defeat Sparta.
Stay behind the walls, and wait them out.
Someone got sick…
Lasted 27 years, the real winner is Macedonia.