HISTORY
ANCIENT GREECE
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To meet the Spartans head on and destroy them in a ground battle
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To remain inside the walls of their city and use their superior ships to win the war
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To lay siege to Sparta and eventually starve them out of their city
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None of these
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Detailed explanation-1: -Why did the Athenians stay within their walled city during the Peloponnesian Wars? Pericles knew they were not strong enough to defeat the Spartan army, but he thought the walls could keep them out. Who said that “the unexamined life is not worth living"? Socrates.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Peloponnesian War was a war fought in ancient Greece between Athens and Sparta-the two most powerful city-states in ancient Greece at the time (431 to 405 B.C.E.). This war shifted power from Athens to Sparta, making Sparta the most powerful city-state in the region.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 430 BC, a plague struck the city of Athens, which was then under siege by Sparta during the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC). In the next 3 years, most of the population was infected, and perhaps as many as 75, 000 to 100, 000 people, 25% of the city’s population, died.
Detailed explanation-4: -The reasons for this war are sometimes traced back as far as the democratic reforms of Cleisthenes, which Sparta always opposed. However, the more immediate reason for the war was Athenian control of the Delian League, the vast naval alliance that allowed it to dominate the Mediterranean Sea.