Peloponnesian+Wars

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~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~**~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~** = Who:    = The Peloponnesian War was led by Sparta, who received support from Persia. It was fought by the Athens and its empire against the Peloponnesian League. = What:  = In simple terms, the Peloponnesian war was a huge change in the Ancient Greek world. The Athens, before the war’s beginning, was the strongest city state in Greece, but was reduced to a state of no power, while Sparta released them of their title of being the leading power of Greece. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center">**This a picture of what the Peloponnesian** **War might've looked like.** = When: = <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center">The war started around 431 BC, and ended around 404 BC. = <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center">Where:   = <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center">   <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">    The Peloponnesian war took place in Mainland Greece, Asia Minor, Sicily. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center">This is a map of where Sparta and Athens was located. = <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center">Why:  = <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center">It was an Ancient Greek military conflict, and Sparta feared Athens growing power. There were also problems between Athens and the other Peloponnesian city-states, which added to the conflict. A truce called the Thirty Years' Treaty had been signed by both powers in 445 BC. Within a decade the truce was slowly descending as Athens thought to extend its empire. In 433 BC, Athens allied itself with Corcyra, a colony of Corinth, but Corinth was an ally of Sparta. Made worse by Corinth, Sparta accused Athens of aggression and threatened to go to war. Athens refused to back down. War began in the spring of 431, when Thebes, a Spartan ally, attacked Plataea, an ally of Athens. = How**:** = <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="display: block; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center">Historians have traditionally divided the war into three phases.

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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif">The Archidamian War, Sparta launched repeated invasions on Attica, while Athens took advantage of its supreme power to raid the cost of the Peloponnese attempting to suppress signs of unrest in its empire. This period of the war was concluded in 421 BC, with the signing of the Peace of Nicias. =  =

Second phase:
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif">That treaty, however, was soon broken by renewed fighting in the Peloponnesus. In 415 BC, Athens dispatched a massive military force to attack Syracuse in Sicily; the attack failed disastrously, with the destruction of the entire force, in 413BC. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif">

Final phase:
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif">This ushered in the final phase of the war. In this phase, Sparta, now receiving support from Persia, supported rebellions in Athens’ empire, and eventually, taking the citys supreme power away. The destruction of Athens’ attack at Aegospotami effectively ended the war, and Athens surrendered in the follo  <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif">wing year.

= __SPARTA WON!__ =

The result of the war was the crushing defeat of Athens and the end of its sea empire. A more long-range result was the weakening of all the other city-states.

By 412 BC Sparta, with the help of allies, had built its own navy. This was done with aid from Persia, a traditional enemy of the Greek city-states. Sparta's alliance with Persia, however, made the other city-states uneasy, and they became less eager to revolt against Athens because of it.

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Truce
The six-year truce they had was used by both sides to get more allies. The peace was doomed however because the fighting had settled nothing. On both sides there were men eager to renew the conflict again. Athens was badly defeated at Sicily but survived for a few more years since Sparta did not press its advantage after the Sicilian losses. Battles continued though, mainly at sea, with each side having losses.

Peace
In 405 BC, Lysander took his navy northward to the Hellespont (now called the Dardanelles) to cut off Athens from its important grain supply lines to the Black Sea. Lysander made a surprise attack on the Athenian ships at Aegospotami while the crews were seperated on land. All except for nine of the Athenian ships were lost, and several thousand Athenians and their allies were killed. Peace was signed in the spring of 404. Sparta won the war and imposed humiliating terms on Athens. The city walls were to be torn down; the defences of its port were to be destroyed; and all but 12 warships were to be surrendered. Athens was therefore forced to be a Spartan ally and to follow the same foreign policy.

What their strategy was:
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif">As the war began, Sparta and Athens each took advantage of their military strengths. Sparta, with its much larger army, damaged Attica, the territory around Athens, while the Athenian navy raided cities on the Peloponnesus. This strategy lasted for two years. By 425 BC, Sparta's hopes for <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif">victory were bleak, and its leaders were ready to ask for peace. Slowly, however, the fortunes of war changed. Sparta, under its general Brasidas, scored significant victories at Chalcidice (424 BC) and Amphipolis (422 BC). Both were serious losses for Athens. The Athenian leader Nicias persuaded the city to accept Sparta's offer to cease hostilities in 421 BC.

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=<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center; display: block">__**Bibliography**__ = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peloponnesian_War ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~**~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*** ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~**~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~** <span style="color: rgb(81, 31, 199)"> <span style="display: block; color: rgb(17, 3, 17); text-align: left"> <span style="color: rgb(133, 239, 219)">Thanks now we need someone to actually read the research. - zappyking <span style="color: rgb(246, 152, 210); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif">I'm going to add some notes + edit them, and I'll try and put it in the who, what, when ect. categories. -flying101- {*ALva TaNG--} Tell me if I should put this on or not: [|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbryM][|KFNwUQ] - zappy king <span style="color: rgb(249, 185, 222); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif">Hold on to the link for now, but wait until we're actually done editing and organizing the website to actually put it on, okay? -flying101- {*ALva TaNG--} <span style="color: rgb(255, 117, 117)">Hey zappy king how about you try looking for another video -cutiecat {emma} <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Thanks to -flying101- for actually reading the research and answering the questions. <span style="color: rgb(249, 154, 206); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif">Your welcome =) by the way, I refixed the top of our page. PS: the note at the top of the page is old. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">-flying101- {*ALva TaNG--} <span style="color: rgb(141, 218, 246)">Someone please put a table showing the dates, I don't have enough time -zappyking <span style="color: rgb(248, 170, 218); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="color: rgb(245, 152, 197); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="color: rgb(253, 165, 220)">I don't get it..what do you mean, showing the dates? As in when the war started and ended, or when we edited these? -flying101- {*ALva TaNG--} <span style="color: rgb(253, 165, 209); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="color: rgb(244, 190, 222)">I deleted some of the information, because it was basically repeating what we already had in different words or it was only about Sparta, and the Peloponnese, but nothing about the actual Peloponnesian War. ** **-flying101- {*ALva TaNG--}** Stop taking off the table of contents -zappyking <span style="color: rgb(249, 154, 202)">Guys, we have to put the who, what, when, where, why, ect. into our own words. The who is already in our own words, but the rest we have to assign it. Here: What- When- Where- Why- How- -flying101- {*ALva TaNG--} <span style="color: rgb(83, 238, 158)">l~SixClaw~l - meh eentRnat wuz Bin stoopd so ima nawts be abL 2 cuntribUt 2 teh weekE peese <span style="color: rgb(81, 31, 199)">Will someone go and find a good video we can put on? Thanks -wikigirl ** <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">**<span style="color: rgb(250, 133, 133); background-color: rgb(82, 45, 45)"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="color: rgb(109, 183, 243)">Who ever is taking the videos I spent time to find and taking them off is not cool -zappyking We still need to find out whose doing each category -zappyking <span style="color: rgb(96, 230, 161)">l~SixClaw~l - Okay, whoever keeps deleting the videos, please stop... it's extremely annoying and you want to put the very stupid LEGO video but me and Artem didn't delete it. Seriously stop deleting them... ** <span style="color: rgb(252, 161, 216); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="color: rgb(243, 134, 187); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif">**You know what? I am going to delete BOTH of the videos. Because if you actually WATCH them, they both are bad. Why did somebody delete the VERY FIRST one we had? It was the only one better than the two we have now. And maybe the new video, we will ALL like it.** Kay, I am gonna put the finishing touches on the wiki that makes it look like we actually wrote the info... great job Alva on organizing our wiki or whoever did it- l~SixClaw~l (JonathaN) <span style="color: rgb(240, 86, 139); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif">What are you talking about? You barely did anything! Michelle and I probably edited most of the stuff! We just need someone to do Peace and what their strategy was! I am NOT doing ANY MORE work!! <span style="color: rgb(17, 19, 17); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">-flying101- {*ALva TaNG--} ** **<span style="color: rgb(246, 146, 189); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif">And yet I still end up doing the ending work..or I'm going to do it now anyways. ****-flying101- {*ALva TaNG--} <span style="color: rgb(249, 159, 194); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif">By the way, I deleted the Table of Contents, because whatever was "Heading 1" went under it. And it's pretty obvious which one our headings so there's really no point of having it. -flying101- {*ALva TaNG--} <span style="color: rgb(0, 255, 197)">We're done; good job everyone. -zappyking **
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center">Group members: <span style="color: rgb(255, 218, 0)">Sam, <span style="color: rgb(235, 94, 82)">Emma, <span style="color: rgb(109, 233, 159)">Jonathan, <span style="color: rgb(94, 182, 237)">Artem, <span style="color: rgb(157, 75, 247)">Michelle, <span style="color: rgb(249, 138, 181)">Alva. **
 * __Comments__**:
 * <span style="color: rgb(81, 31, 199)">I'll edit the info and page layout. - wikigirl
 * <span style="color: rgb(251, 137, 175); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(139, 219, 248)">Like showing the main events and the dates so for example showing when the three phases happen -zappyking
 * -flying101- {*ALva TaNG**<span style="color: rgb(130, 255, 0)">**<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">--}