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Persian Wars Greek History
1,519 wordsHOW ATHENS TOOK OVER LEADERSHIP OF SPARTA AFTER THE PERSIAN WARS During the period of Greek history from the last years of the Persian Wars till the beginning of the First Peloponnesian War, the primacy of Sparta declined while Athens was gaining increased influence in Greece. The Athenian, Thucydides (460 - 400 BC), one among few contemporary historians, left behind the most creditable records about this period. Although he did not give enough documentation for many events he described, his His...
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Alexander The Great Persian Empire
1,246 wordsAlexander the Great in Conquest of Gaugemel In the early summer of 331, Alexander the Great took his whole army northeast through Syria, reaching Euphrates, not earlier than July 10. Darius, the great king of the Persian empire, knew very well that Babylon itself was Alexander's next objective. Babylon, the great city on the Lower Euphrates, was the economic center of the empire. Alexander the Great struck hard, fast, and with maximum economy. It was therefore that he would come straight down th...
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Darius I The Great Reign
1,268 words... his empires borders. He conquered new territories along the Indus River in the east and to the Caucasus Mountains in the northwest. By conquering the northwest Darius was able to control a narrow straight that connected the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. By having control over this narrow strip he successfully split Asia and Europe at modern day Istanbul. During Darius reign the Persian Empire achieved its highest peak. Persia's borders were strong and their economy was sound. Like all...
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Persian Wars Individual Freedom
1,360 wordsHerodotus, in his book The History, tells us a good deal about how, in the course of the 5 th Century, the Greeks came to define themselves by casting "barbarians" as a negative foil for those traits which they admired in themselves. By barbarians, Herodotus means the Others, those who were not Greek or European. The Persian Wars marked something of a watershed in this regard. Prior to the 480 s the Greek view of their eastern neighbors did not seem to have been excessively negative or hostile. ...
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Persian Empire Battle Field
1,486 wordsAlexander the Great, a patient and often devious man; had never struck without careful planning. The youthful, headstrong Alexander liked to settle problems by immediate action. Making decisions with great speed, he took extraordinary risks; his success was achieved by the amount of sheer force and drive to overcome these risks. Alexander was educated as a student by the Greek philosopher Aristotle. The philosopher imbued Alexander with a love of Greek art and poetry, and instilled in him a last...
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Alexander The Great Persian Empire
1,437 words... Persian provinces. After two years he reached and subdued Bactria and Sogdiana; he now controlled all that belonged to Darius. As the campaign of Persia was ending, Alexander s plan expanded. Originally his purpose had been simply to destroy the Persian army. He had decided to take over the whole Persian empire, and he went on to achieve this without losing a single battle. If Alexander thought of the Persian empire at all, he thought of it simply as a source of wealth. However, as he took o...
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1,369 words... vil service. Another contribution to the Spartan government that Lycurgus provided was the money system. The Spartans used pieces of iron instead of silver and gold. This type of monetary system was of very little value outside of the Spartan city-state and made the citizens dependent upon the local economy. The warrior culture of Sparta was battle tested time and time again and proved to be the strongest battle ready nation within the Grecian region. The Spartans were called upon during man...
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Coral Reefs And Algae
1,656 wordsCoral Reefs and Algae Coral reefs are unique ecological systems of the Earth Nature. These systems are very complicated and provide natural balance in the global ocean environment. Unfortunately, the human technological activity impacts coral reefs in the same harmful way as it impacts other ecological systems. Coral reefs are inhabited of approximately 25 % of marine species. They are very valuable because of their economic attractiveness through tourism and fisheries. A recent economic estimat...
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Good Or Bad Economic And Social
1,577 wordsFairness and Equality in Ecuador Ecuador is small country in south America. is situated over Per? and beneath Venezuela and Colombia. It? s population is 12. 500. 000. there are different ethnic groups in Ecuador, there is mestizo (mixed Amerindian and Spanish) 55 %, Amerindian 25 %, Spanish 10 %, black 10 % (- 1 -). The predominant religion is Roman Catholicism. 90 % of the population knows how to read and write. Ecuador is also very rich in tradition and it has been blessed with tons of natura...
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Olympic Games Persian Attack
458 wordsIn September of 490 BC. The Greco-Persian war rages on in the Marathon Plain of Northwest Attica. The Athenians have just repulsed the first Persian invasion of Greece. The Greek army was vested to ten different generals each controlling one day of battle. The generals were evenly divided on whether to wait for the Persians to attack or to attack them. A civil official, Callimachus, who decided to attack, broke the tie. Four of the generals ceded their commands to the Athenian general Miltiades ...
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Million Metric Tons Persian Gulf
1,919 wordsIran HIstory geography climate culture economy government Iran is a country located in the Middle East. Below it is the Gulf of Oman and to the west is the Persian Gulf. On the east is Afghanistan and to the north is Turkmenistan and the Caspian Sea. The total area of Iran is 632, 457 square miles, which is slightly larger than Alaska and about 6 times smaller than the United States. Iran has about 65, 612, 000 people which is about 100 people per square mile. That means that the United States h...
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3,522 wordsIran En dag Iran S-O Arbete Iran En dag med motor Det var en solid eftermiddag i Teheran. Jag site med min motor p? alkanes, motor stockade p? en tr? ja och jag dark te, som? r en market valid dry i Iran. Jag site och bl? decade i en bok om Iran, jag s? g Iran p? korean. Det s? g gdansk stort ut s? jag fr? gade: Motor velvet? r st? rst Sverige eller Iran? Motor scalade och sa att Iran n? stan? r tre g? new s? stort som Sverige, f? r det? r c: a 1 650 000 km 2 och forum? nude? r ock's? market st?...
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Shatt Al Arab Iran Iraq War
2,174 wordsSaddam Hussein, the Iraqi dictator is a ruthless despot who has brought enormous misery on his own people. It is a pity he remains in power (Finley). The tension between Iran and Iraq had deep roots. Long-standing major problems included rivalries between the minority Sunni Muslims who dominated Iraq and the majority Shiites and disputes over borders that confined Iraq to its narrow access to the Persian Gulf by way of the Shatt al Arab waterway. In 1969, when Britain announced its intent to wit...
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Nomadic Tribes Byzantine Empire
4,335 wordsIslamic Conquests Up To 700 A. d. Islamic Conquests Up To 700 A. d. Islamic Strengths / Roman Weaknesses? In the two decades after the Byzantine occupation of Ctesiphon in 629 the newly formed Islamic state had destroyed the Sasanian Empire whilst severely damaged the Byzantine Empire. ? These gains were by no means temporary. ? Indeed our period sees the strengthening and expansion of these gains into northern Africa and the Mediterranean Islands. Yet, before Muhammad? s extraordinary rise to p...
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Lord Byron Asia Minor
1,418 wordsThe Battle of Marathon One of the most significant battles in antiquity was fought on the narrow, tree strewn plain of Marathon, in September, 490 BC. There, the Athenian army defeated a Persian force more than twice its size, because of superior leadership, training and equipment. The battle of Marathon has provided inspiration to the underdogs throughout history. In 490 BC, the Athenians proved that superior strategy, and technology can claim victory over massive numbers. In 646 BC the Persian...
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6,495 wordsSkeptical view of the flood myth As skeptics have long been aware, there was no global flood in the last 5000 years, a boatload of animals did not ground on so-called Mount Ararat or on any mountain, and the worlds animals are not descended from two or seven pairs of each species that lived during the third millennium BC. Nor is there any archaeological proof that a man survived a flood by being on a boat loaded with animals, food, and drinking water. The Noahs Ark book summarized here does not ...
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Greek City States Won The War
2,196 words? Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, beginning at the moment that it broke out, and believing that it would be a great war and more worthy of relation than any that had preceded it. This belief was not without its grounds. The preparations of both the combatants were in every department in the last state of perfection; and he could see the rest of the Hellenic race taking sides in the quarrel; those who delayed doing so at once hav...
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Asia Minor City States
619 wordsPersian Wars In 519 BC Darius I ascended the throne of the expanding empire of Persia. A group of people called the Ionians, lived along the coast of Asia Minor. They were under Persian rule, having been conquered by Emperor Cyrus (ruled 550 - 530 BC), and at this time were unhappy about their conditions. In 499 BC Aristagoras, the leader Miletus, one of the city-states, organized a revolt of all the rest of the city-states along the coast. Dariusmanaged however, to subdue things in a five-year ...
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850 wordsThe Persian Wars PERSIAN WAR The Persian war was a great war. It was fought between Greece and Persia. Even though the war was fierce and there were many casualties the outcome was great for Greece. It brought the Greek city-states together and it also boosted their morale and gave them the confidence they needed to become an even greater empire. Athens was the wealthiest Greek city-state in 500 B. C. But they soon faced a threat of war from the the Persians. The Persians had a great empire that...
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Evidence To Support Claim To The Throne
1,568 wordsBorn in c. Xerxes Xerxes Born in c. 519 BC, of the parents King Darius and his wife Atossa came Xerxes. He was raised in the lavish opulence of an eastern court and became the designated heir to his father s throne in which he was to rule over the greatest empire of his time for 21 years. The Persian Empire. He was not the oldest of Darius sons but still became the heir over his oldest brother Artabazanes. There were two main reasons for this, His mother Atossa was the daughter of the great Cyru...
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