CIVILIZATION
GREEK
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Its relationship with Sparta
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Its democratic form of government
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Its control of the Delian League
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Its support for art and learning
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Detailed explanation-1: -Pericles began using the Delian League’s resources, including its navy and taxes, for Athens. It was this money that let him build the massive temple in Athens called the Parthenon. City-states who tried to leave the League were often punished severely. Athens began acting more and more like an empire.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -Athens has been continuously inhabited for over 3, 000 years, becoming the leading city of Ancient Greece in the first millennium BC; its cultural achievements during the 5th century BC laid the foundations of western civilization.