HIST110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Hellenistic Period
6 Jul 2015
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Classical age - the era beginning with the defense if greece against persia lasting until the conquest of persia by the greeks under alexander the great, marked by vitality in civic life, economic prosperity, artistic expressionism, and literary achievement. Peloponnesian war - prolonged war between athens, which sought to dominate. Greece, and sparta, one of the last holdouts against athens. an epidemic of typhus in. 429 bce weakened athens, while the spartans" alliance with persia allowed them to challenge and defeat the athenian navy. Pythagoreans - group of philosophers named after pythagoras, who had developed the famous theorem. they sought to identify rational order and laws governing the natural world; hence their focus on mathematics.
