mainland of Greece‚ and they need to make frequent trips back and forth with transport ships full of food to feed the many soldiers on the Isthmus therefore giving the Persians great reason to remove the threat of Greeks from the isle of Salamis. Spartans also with the Athenians on the island wanted to return to the Peloponnese before the Persians so they could seal of the Isthmus of Cornith with a wall however Themistocles persuaded them to stay‚ convincing them that a wall would have no point as
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Persians followed the path and trapped the Greek army (Hammond 1988‚ p. 555; Thomas 2014‚ p. 50). At this point‚ Leonides discharged most of the other Greek soldiers apart from the 300 Spartans and continued the attack on the Persians (Hammond 1988‚ p. 556; Pudrusch 2007; Thomas 2014‚ p. 51). Subsequently‚ Leonides and his 300 men were overcome during the last stages of the battle and were killed by Persian archers (Hammond 1988‚ p. 557‚ 558; Pudrusch 2007). It is important to note that under the instructions
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interesting‚ you don’t need to read a book‚ and in the movies a lot of cool effects. Hollywood did a lot of historical movie with really cool special effects‚ but I don’t like them movies‚ because they always lie. I mean in old movies‚ like 300 spartans and another they create movie like was in the book‚ but another movies about world wars and another they lie. Hollywood create movie where America is the main and America always beat bad guys. History movies common in one part. Every history
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Name: _________________________________________ Instructions: The exam is composed of ten problems. Make sure you have all pages in your exam. Including this cover page‚ you should have ten pages. Each problem has its own set of instructions. You may use abbreviations for labels to save time. Unclear responses will receive 0 points. Partial credit will be awarded. If you need additional space for your answer‚ use the back of the page. Problem 1 5 Points Mint Corporation
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scientific activity‚ and was the birthplace of democracy. Sparta was a militaristic‚ authoritarian society that held the arts and intellectual life in contempt and dreaded the extension of freedom to the individual or community. Greeks admired the Spartan way of life. Greek city states came off as “Democratic” and rule by the people‚ but in reality it was not a real democracy. In Athens when someone didn’t agree‚ they enforced the will of the majority without resorting to bloodshed but the idea
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hostiles on my position.” I knew there were hundreds of them out there. All of our motion sensors were like radiation scanners in a nuclear fallout. Blue one was running faster and swifter than all of us even with the Mjolnir armor on‚ it weighed over 300 pounds. We jumped up onto the ridge shooting armor piercing rounds into the grunts and elites tearing through their armor and Into their skin. The screeches of their voices and the ground covered in there blue and purple blood. Rockets flew in from
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control over their property and over marriage decisions. However‚ even these women could not vote or hold public office. The lives of most women were centered around their households. For example‚ in the Greek city-state of Athens from about 500 to 300 B.C.‚ women raised children and managed the spinning‚ weaving‚ and cooking in the household. Wealthy women supervised slaves in these tasks‚ but they also did some of the work themselves. Respectable Athenian women seldom left their homes. Only men
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reproach”. The Persians unlike most other Empires would be ruled under a benevolent ruler. This would bring a large amount of cultural diffusion to the Empire. The empires history is separated into three historical periods: Old Persia (600-300 B.C.E)‚ Middle Persia (300-800 B.C.E.) and modern Persia (800-Present). The height or the Empire was reached around 500 B.C.E. (Ancient and Medieval History Online.) The rise of the Persian Empire began with Cyrus II in the 6th century B.C.E. Cyrus was the first
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to produce healthy offspring as well as partaking in the running of the economy. Women in Sparta were treated with the utmost respect‚ as they were an essential element in the ancient warrior society. Spartan women enjoyed much more freedom then women from the other polis (Greek city states). Spartan women were given great privileges as they involved their prominent positions in society in regards to education‚ family‚ religion and the economy‚ which soon became desired by women all
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their governments‚ and the rivaling each other because they were both the best in their own ways among all other Greek poleis. Tensions continued to build up and Athens was expanding all over Greece and the paranoia of Sparta grew. Eventually the Spartans’ paranoia was too great and was a major reason for the Peloponnesian War along with the fact they had very different governments. Athens was a “progressive‚ democratic city.”[1] The major steps toward democracy were introduced by the reforms of
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