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The Spartans had a stronger army. Spartans started the fighting by invading the Attic peninsula. The war continued for 27 years, punctuated by periods of truce and armed peace.

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Athens leader, Themistocles told Athens to leave the city and escape. Xerxes army came and destroyed Athens. Then thermosticles tricked xerxes into attacking the Athenian fleet in the narrow sea.

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Growth of Athens during the age of Pericles 

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Growth of Athens during the age of Pericles 

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With Pericles as the leader reached its peak of power and wealth. Pericles was in office all men besides the lower class everyone else held office.

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The Spartans badly outnumbered, refused to surrender. The Spartans courage at the battle bought the other city-states time to prepare their forces

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Athenians outnumbered and defeated the Persians. The Persians invaded Greece itself.

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A series of conflicts between Greece and Persia that land until 479 BC. These conflicts are known as the Persian wars.

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An alliance of city-state with Athens as leader. Eventually the league included 140 other city-states, who each contributed money or ships

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One difference was the Athenians had slavery and the Spartans didn’t. They both had strict laws. Another similarity was they both had democracy. Another difference was Athenian was had trade and spartan didn’t.

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1. City-State had an aristocratic government only citizens who owned land held office and all adult males citizens met in an assembly.
Athens laws were not written down and many non aristocrats complained.
Nobles and Metics became very wealthy and farmers became poor. More people became slaves to pay of there debts.

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1.Only Athenian born men had full political rights. 2.Another group was the metics these people were non-citizens because they were born outside Athens. 3.Metics usually worked as merchants or artisans. 4.Slaves stood at the bottom. 5.Athenians considered slavery natural and necessary.

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1.  The government had Two kings at the head of the government, One of the kings is in leads the army and the other is in charge of matters of home.
2. The government had an assembly that included all male citizens over 30 years old and voted to accept or reject laws proposed by the council or elders.

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1. Sparta had three social groups. 2. First group known as the equals were descended from the invaders. 3. Spartas second group was made of half-citizens. 4. Spartas third group was made of helots. 5. Fear of a helot uprising was one reason the Spartans created military society. 5. Sparta was located in a valley.