Chapter 4 Test Plus The Beginning of Chapter 5

Today in class, we took our chapter 4 test. This test was actually pretty easy. I only had trouble with two of the dates on the back. But for the most part, I think I aced it! After I finished my test, Mr. Schick told me and the rest of the class to go on his blog and do the work. So I did, and here it is - 

Hellenistic - refers to the "international" period of Greek history, when much of the Mediterranean and southwestern Asia was under Greek rule; Greek word meaning "to behave like a Greek"; the period of Greek history between the death of the Macedonian king and Alexander the Great; 323 BC - the Hellenistic era begins; its a description of how the Macedonians ruled.

After the defeat of Xerxes in 480 BC, Sparta ceased fighting. Athens decided to form an alliance with the city-states and convinced the members to contribute money for the construction of triremes. In 445 BC, after the city-state of Anatolia  was free from Persian rule, Athens continued collecting money while the other cities were provoked by Athens' behavior. With this, Athens insisted that these other cities practice democracy, even though most of them were oligarchies. All the other cities, upset with Athens' demand, went to Sparta to put Athens in check. Athens willingly took the challenge. In the course of the war (431-404 BC), Athens decided to take Sparta out by sea, knowing that they couldn't be defeated on land. With that bad decision, Athens fell and Sparta defeated. The reason they lost was probably because of poor leadership. They were also in a conflict with Corinth. Also, when Athens went to sea to fight, they left all their land unprotected and that was a poor battle tactic. Athens also didn't have enough allies to even be safe enough to start a war. 

In 359 BC, Phillip II of Macedonia comes to power and moves to control Greece.