World History › Section E · The ancient Mediterranean › Topic E.2
Ancient Greece
Hundreds of small, quarrelsome city-states produced citizen government, the first democracy, a famous victory over Persia, a ruinous civil war and ideas that still shape philosophy, theatre and history. This topic runs from the Archaic revival to the exhaustion of the city-states in the 300s BCE.
In this topic
- The polis and the Archaic revival
- Sparta: a city built for war
- Athens: from Solon to Cleisthenes
- How Athenian democracy worked, and for whom
- The Persian Wars
- Worked example: how big was Xerxes' army?
- From Delian League to Athenian empire
- The Peloponnesian War
- Worked example: Thucydides on the war's cause
- Thought, theatre and art
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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