HIS 220 Lecture 24: Week 12
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The first dance archidamian war 432/431 421. People stopped fearing the law because they felt they were already living under a death sentence. People who cared for the ill would catch the disease as well, so many of the ill died alone with no one to care for them. Sphacteria (425: land battle of the peloponnesian war between athens and sparta, an athenian force under cleon and demosthenes attacked and forced them to surrender. Brasidas, delion, amphipolis (424-421: brasidas: spartan officer. Peace of nikias (421-415) a peace of exhaustion: also known as the fifty-year peace, a peace treaty signed between athens and sparta, ending the first half of the. Melos (416/415)-submission to athens: with the encouragement of alcibiades, the athenians take the island of melos. They had remained neutral during the war. Inhabitants are treated with great cruelty by the athenians. Men were killed and women and children were made slaves.
