- Hellenistic: refers to the "international" period of Greek history, when much of the Mediterranean and southwestern Asia was under Greek rule
- time between the death of the Macedonian king and Alexander the Great
- 359 B.C King Philip II of Macedonia comes to power; moves to control Greece
The Athenians lost the war against Sparta because after they
won the battle against Persia they insisted that the Athenians’ allies pay to
build more triremes, state of the art war ships, even though they were not at
war with anyone and did not see themselves going to war. The allies of Athens
did not want to pay any longer for ships they were not using so they asked
Sparta for help to put an end to it. This lead to war and even though Athens
lost to Sparta; Sparta lost a lot of resources and soldiers in the fight. All
in all Athens lost because they were too cocky after they won the war against
the best and strongest empire. They thought they could defeat anyone they came
up against. They also should not have been forcing people to pay for war ships
that were not needed. If the Athens stayed humble and continued on with their
lives they would not have caused a war and been defeated.
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