History 1113
Spartan Politics and Expansion. c.
750-400
B.C.E.
I. The Archaic Period
A. The Context of Spartan Expansion:
Greek
Expansion in the Mediterranean and at Home
1. Colonization
2. Spartan Expansion, c. 750-550 B.C.E.
3. How the Spartans Went Into Battle
B. Sparta Enters International Politics: The
Wars
with Persia
1. Reason for the Conflict
2. Wars with Persia: Round 1, 490 B.C.E.
3. Wars with Persia, Round 2, 480-479 B.C.E.
C. Wars among the Greek Poleis
1. Delian League, c. 478 B.C.E.
2. Peloponnesian War of 431-404 B.C.E.
Key Terms:
Mediterranean
Italy
France
Spain
Africa
Egypt
Black Sea
Taras
Ionian Sea
Gulf of Taranto
First Messenian War (c.736-716 B.C.E.)
Second Messenian War (begins, c. 675-640 B.C.E.)
helots/Messenians
Messenia
Arcadia
Argos
Laconia
Mantinea
Tegea
Orchomenus
Spartan phalanx
Persia
Darius (558-486 B.C.E., r. 522-486 B.C.E.)
Battle of Marathon
Athens
Xerxes (~521-465 B.C.E., r. 486-465 B.C.E.)
Thermopylae
Leonidas (r. ~490-480 B.C.E.)
hippeis
Thebans
Thespians
Plataea
Corinth
Thebes
Delian League
delos
Third/Fourth Messenian War (464-459 B.C.E.)
Peloponnesian War (431-404 B.C.E.)
Pericles, Archon of Athens (495-429 B.C.E.)
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