CLAB05H3 Chapter 5: The Growth of Athens and the Persian wars

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Chapter 5: the growth of athens and the persian wars. During the archaic period, numerous greek states struggled w/problems bw the aristocrats, tyranny. Athenians became the 2nd most powerful greek polis and played a major role in war. While greek city stats were evolving, the persian empire was growing into an ambitious power and would threaten to engulf the hellenic world. Athens from the bronze age to the early archaic age. Physical remains and literary evidence show that during the late bronze age, athens was the largest and most important settlement and a major mycenaean palace-center that exercised a loose control over the other fortified palace-centers in the region. Archaeology confirm that the upheavals spared athens. If this is true they would have found in attica the same collapse of the centralized ruling structure, drastic depopulation and dispersal of the village. The first sign of athenian recovery from the post invasion slump is the appearance of.

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