Western Civilization I / Unit 3 WC1 0228 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Aftermath: Leuctra, Mercenaries, and Persia Returns
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The idea
Victory undid Sparta: Spartans bought sons out of the barracks, and Thebes won at Leuctra in three seventy-one, a witness name. Poleis turned to paid armies and mercenaries, and by three eighty-seven Persia held the Ionian Greeks again.
In practice
After four oh five hoplite republics give way to councils, tyrants and taxes.
Where people slip
King's Peace is the conventional name for three eighty-seven; unwitnessed.
Your place on the trail
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