Period Two 600 B C E 600 C

Period Two 600 B. C. E. – 600 C. E. Organization and Reorganization of Human Societies

Greeks • Delian League & Greco Persian Wars • 477 – 404 B. C. E. • Promised to defend members from Persian attacks • Worked to drive Persians out of Greek territories in Asia Minor • Most of the chief treasury officials were Athenians

s s r te en r a th u q A d a to e H ed ov m Athens slowly began to take Athenian Empire control over the other city-states He demanded • strict loyalty from other city-states • payments from city-states • All city-states use Athenian money He allowed • lower class male citizens to run for public office • public officials to be paid Pericles - popular general during the Greco-Persian Wars

After the War: • All city-states were weakened • Many casualties • Farms destroyed • • • Greeks don’t trust each other Future unification nearly impossible Sparta tried ruling all of Greece Rebellions resulted in more wars Vulnerable to attack from foreign invaders Faravahar Guardian Angel

Philipp II - Macedonian • Conquerors Greek citystates • Achieves political unification 338 B. C. E. a s s i r a S Introduced phalanx infantry s a i p m Oly f o r e h Fat er d n a x Ale

Alexander the Great 333 -323 B. C. E. • Conquerors the Persian Empire • Responsible for the spread of Greek Culture – Hellenistic Era (323 -20 B. C. E. ) • Dies 323 B. C. E. - Empire split among his generals • Ptolemaic - Egypt • Seleucid - Persia Cleopatra VII, the last Macedonian descendent of Ptolemy committed suicide in 30 BC, after which Egypt was added to the Roman Empire.

Rape of the Sabine Women • Rags to riches • Not as advanced as their Etruscan neighbors • Began with kings • Becomes a republic 509 B. C. E. • Patricians and Plebians • Public assemblies and tribunes • Caesar Augustus 27 B. C. E. -14 C. E. • Punic Wars – Phoenicians 264 -146 BCE • Hannibal and Scipio Africanus (218 -203 B. C. E. ) • Piecemeal Empire making • Collapse • Byzantine 476 C. E. Intervention of the Sabine Women Jacques-Louis David 1799