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Series of wars between Athens and Sparta beginning in 460 B.C.
Peloponnesian Wars
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Pact joined in 478 B.C. by Athennians and other Greeks to contine the war with Persia.
Delian League
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The commander of the Athenian army who agreed to a peace of thirty years.
Pericles
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Athens, dependent states, and the independent states allied to the empire.
Athenian empire
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Under the leadership of Pericles, the Athenians evoloved the freest government the world had yet seen; Democratic Legislation, elections, and justice systems.
Athenian democracy
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A Spartan leader who defeated Athens; he installed an aligarchic government in Athens.
Lysander
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The tragedies always dealt solemnly with difficult questions of religion, politics, ethics, morality, or some combination of these.
- Drama- Attic Tragedy
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have completed plays and wrote political comedies.
Aristophanes
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Of Greek architecture, Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian, ahve had an enduring impact on Western architecture.
The three orders (Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian)
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continued the speculation about the speculation about the nature of the cosmos; concept of basic elements
Philosophers: Thales, Parmenides, Zeno, Empedocles
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A group of professional teachers who emerged in the mid-fifth century; traveled and tought pracitcal techniques of persuation as phetoric, dialectic, and arguementation.
Sophists
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the writer of the first prose literature in the form of history; "The father of history"
Herodotus
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the historian of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides
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founded a scientific attitude of the school of medicine.
Hippocrates
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He was committed to the search for truth and for the knowledge about human affairs that he believed reason could discove; questioning and cross-examinination.
Socrates
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founded the Academy, a center of philosophical investigation and a school for training statesmen and citizens.
Plato
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founded the Lyceum(the school of the Peripaterics). He wrote on everything; his method began with observation of the empirical evidence.
Aristotle
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