Test Day and note taking

Today in Honors Western Civilization we had a test on Ancient Greece. I think that the test went well there were about 3 questions that I had trouble on. I now know that Macedonia is at the very top of Greece. I also now know that soldiers that helped tyrants take over were called hoplites. After we got finished taking the test we took notes on pages 134-141 in our textbooks. Reading this section I found it very interesting that the man named Pericles led Greece to their Golden Ages. He came up with the idea to pay government officials which has never been done before. This made the people of Athens very motivated and government participation went up very much. Throughout this entire tie tensions were heating up between Sparta and Athens for pretty petty reasons. They basically were arguing over whose city state was the best. This eventually led to a war called the Peloponesian War. Athens tried to contain Sparta to the water so their navy could defeat them. This worked for a while until Athens got too cocky and tried to attack Syracuse. They miserably failed which lowered the defense a lot. However, they were able to fend off Sparta for nine years until they came to defeat.

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