Download - Period Two 600 B.C.E. – 600 C.E
Period Two600 B.C.E. – 600 C.E.
Organization and Reorganization of Human Societies
Greeks• Delian League &
Greco Persian Wars
• 477 – 404 B.C.E.• Promised to defend
members from Persian attacks
• Worked to drive Persians out of Greek territories in Asia Minor
• Most of the chief treasury officials were Athenians
Athenian EmpireAthens slowly began to take control over the other city-states
Headquarters
moved to Athens
Pericles - popular general during the Greco-Persian Wars
He demanded • strict loyalty from other city-states• payments from city-states• All city-states use Athenian money
He allowed • lower class male citizens to run for public
office• public officials to be paid
Peloponnesian Wars
FaravaharGuardian Angel
431 to 404 BC
After the War:
• All city-states were weakened• Many casualties• Farms destroyed
• Greeks don’t trust each other • Future unification nearly impossible• Sparta tried ruling all of Greece • Rebellions resulted in more wars• Vulnerable to attack from foreign
invaders
Philipp II - Macedonian• Conquerors Greek city-
states• Achieves political
unification 338 B.C.E.
Father of
AlexanderIntroduced phalanx infantry
Sarissa
Olympias
Alexander the Great 333-323 B.C.E.
• Conquerors the Persian Empire• Responsible for the spread of Greek Culture – Hellenistic Era
(323-20 B.C.E.)• Dies 323 B.C.E. - Empire split among his generals
• Ptolemaic - Egypt• Seleucid - Persia
Cleopatra VII, the last Macedonian descendent of Ptolemy committed suicide in 30 BC, after which Egypt was added to the Roman Empire.
Roman Empire200 B.C.E – 200 C.E.
• Rags to riches• Not as advanced as their Etruscan
neighbors• Began with kings• Becomes a republic 509 B.C.E.
• Patricians and Plebians• Public assemblies and tribunes
• Caesar Augustus 27 B.C.E. -14 C.E. • Punic Wars – Phoenicians 264 -146 BCE
• Hannibal and Scipio Africanus (218-203 B.C.E.)
• Piecemeal Empire making• Collapse
• Byzantine 476 C.E.
Rape of the Sabine WomenIntervention of the Sabine Women
Jacques-Louis David 1799