Social Sciences and History / Unit 3 SSH 0213 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Peloponnesian War and Its Aftermath
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The idea
Athens and Sparta fought from four thirty-one BCE. Sparta finally allied with Persia and won, but the war undid the hoplite order: Spartans grew rich or too poor to train, and diplomacy mattered as much as arms.
In practice
Thebes defeating Sparta in three seventy-one, to general shock.
Where people slip
The Greeks emerged less isolated and more cosmopolitan. Their sense of superiority was muted, not gone.
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