Now just like in the first war Sparta couldn’t do it alone; so they asked the Persians to help conquer Athens. They asked their own enemy for help. This truly was a good example of history repeating itself. Mainly because Spartans defeated the Persians on land and Athenians defeated them in the sea. This time Spartans defeated the Athenians on land and the Persians defeated the Athenians in the sea.
In his commentary of Xenophon’s ‘Hellenica’, George Carkwell argues that Sparta originally lost her power from 394 BC, after the naval victory of the Persian and Greek fleet. The combined Persian and Greek fleet was under the command of the Athenian Conon and Pharnabazus. They defeated the Spartan navy led by Pisander. Following this significant defeat, Spartan ‘harmosts’ were expelled through the Aegean and this led to the Lacedaemonian maritime empire being virtually
This gave them an edge over the Persians who were fighting for their leaders, without any emotional attachment to the cause of fighting. This morale is captured in Aeschylus’ play, depicting Themistocles march into battle crying- “Forward you sons of Hellas, set your country free…all is at stake now fight!” The last battle of Mycale was won with the synergetic Greek forces driven to liberate the Ionians from Persian lead. This shows how the moral of the Greek soldiers contributed to their overall defeat of the Persians. The Greeks were
After defeating the Persians for the second time, the Greeks decided that they needed to form a league to promote the mutual protection of Greece. All members who joined the League were to pay a fee to help defray costs. The treasury of the League was located on the island of Delos, for which the league was named. At the time of the Greeks were so determined to make the defensive alliance work, that they sealed the pact by throwing a piece of iron into the sea, and pledged to support each other until it rose back to the surface. Pericles was the most prominent politician in Athens from 461 until 429 BC.
Pericles was a very strategic leader and they decided to start another war by going to the source, Sparta. xx. Spartans won the war simple because of the bad Athenian decisions. The Athenians thought too high about themselves, so they thought that they could just go far and conquer. The Spartans were really close to them on the other hand, this led to them having an open shot to Athens with little in their way.
By 46 B.C., through the military genius of Julius Caesar, Rome conquered most of the land surrounding the Mediterranean, which was most of the known world at that time. However, this expansion hurt Rome more than it helped Rome. The Romans had an ever changing government to meet the demands of a growing empire. At first Rome had harsh Etruscan kings, but they soon had enough of these cruel tyrants and eventually ran them out of Rome. In there place they created the Roman Republic, which was modeled after the Greek Democracy.
Dewey was in the perfect position to strike, and when given his orders to attack on May 1, 1898, the American navy was ready. Those who look back with fondness on American military triumphs must count the BATTLE OF MANILA BAY as one of the greatest success stories. The larger, wooden Spanish fleet was no match for the newer American steel navy. After Dewey's guns stopped firing, the entire Spanish squadron was a hulking disaster. The only American casualty came from sunstroke.
This motion however was interrupted by the battle and was completed after Persian defeat at Plataea in 479 BC. This marks the initiation of Themistocles push towards a naval focus. The naval war between Athens and Aegina was quite significant for
This was fought between the Greek city-state Athens and the Boeotian city’s forces. Hanson accounts the surprisingly dramatic impact of this battle both immediately and even until this present day on a variety of aspects about life, war, and thought. Athens was fighting on two fronts and wanted to eliminate the northern front, Boeotia, as to focus all their resources on the much stronger Sparta. In order to do so they were going to, attack Boeotia on two fronts at the same time, as to force the “outnumbered Boeotian army [to] to scatter between the pincers” (Hanson 176). Demosthenes, who was leading the naval front to northern Boeotia, arrived at his destination early and the Boeotians discovered the Athenian plans.
It is apparent on how the Ancient Athenians executed Socrates after the series of attempts of his followers to destroy Democracy. It is also a Democracy of the Sword because of the Ancient Athenians view war as a necessity to protect Democracy, which they claim to be the model government for other Greek City-States to follow but eventually these wars destroyed Democracy. The Democracy of the United States of America during the 20th century, as I see it, is a Democracy of principles in a sense that Ideologies are dominant in the United States. There are four dominant Ideologies namely: liberal, conservative, libertarian and populist. I tend to think that the United States view the world as a political area and it is just a mere battle of principles of state governance.