Thermopylae: Thermopylae was a battle fought between the Greek alliances within the city-states, which was led by King Leonidas of Sparta and the Persian Empire of Xerxes I over the course of three days, during the second Persian invasion of Greece.
Peloponnesian War: Athens and Sparta united during the Greco-Persian wars, after the war was over, Athens grew more powerful this caused tensions to rise between Sparta and Athens. They fought each other for nearly 30 years until Sparta was victorious. Unfortunelty Athens was left bankrupt and demolished. This is important because neither city-state got their military strength back.
Draco: An aristocrat who during 7th century BCE was given the task of composing a new set of laws.
Socratic Dialogue:
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The second war started when General Hannibal invaded Italy, with many victories until he was defeated by Scipio Africuns, this left Rome in control of Spain and the western Mediterranean. The third war started when Scipio and the romans captured Carthage in 146 B.C., making Africa a part of the Roman empire.
Part 2 (20%): Answer 2 of the following short essay questions.
1. How does the Struggle of Orders contribute to the fall of the Roman Republic?
The Struggle of Orders was a conflict between the commoners and the aristocrats. The voting for elected officials was dominated by one class; the wealthy. The aristocrats couldn’t survive without the commoners, because the commoner supplied the grain and labor. The commoner wanted the wrongs that were done to them corrected. The Plebeians struggled for 200 years before they saw the change they wanted to see.
2. What does Greek religion tell us of the Greeks themselves?
The Greeks used their religion to as an explanation to help understand the universe and all the events that has occurred in it. In Ancient Greece religion and philosophy weren’t completely different. Traditional beliefs of god and the teaching of their philosophy made