CIVILIZATION
GREEK
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Question
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Athens
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Corinth
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Persia
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Macedonia
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Detailed explanation-1: -In 460 BC, Pericles became the influential leader of (Athens/Corinth). Darius I led a (Greek/Persian) force that landed twenty-five miles north of Athens in 490 BC. The Greeks defeated the Persian fleet at the Battle of (Salamis Bay/Marathon).
Detailed explanation-2: -Solon was one of the Seven Wise Men of Greece and dominated Athenian politics for several decades, becoming the city’s chief magistrate in the early years of the 6th century BC (594-3 BC).
Detailed explanation-3: -Pericles as Leader While he was not a king or dictator in charge of Athens, Greece, Pericles was the foremost statesman of Athens from 461-429. Pericles was repeatedly elected to be one of the 10 strategoi (generals).
Detailed explanation-4: -Pericles strengthened democracy in Athens by paying public officials. Pericles expanded the empire by building a strong naval fleet. Pericles rebuilt and beautified Athens.
Detailed explanation-5: -Pericles was an Athenian statesman. Under his leadership Athenian democracy and the Athenian empire flourished, making Athens the political and cultural focus of Greece between the Greco-Persian and Peloponnesian wars.