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Topic 1 - year 12

Hi everybody...yes, it's me back again, just not in the flesh. I will be back in class on the 17th June, ready to hassle you all again. In the meantime I have been busy making questions and other stuff for you via Mrs. Cameron. You should have done all the work on the Delian League by the time I get back. Please make sure that YOU DO IT THOROUGHLY.


 * //Naxos and Carystus were the first to segregate, but were visited by the Athenian navy and forced into surrender (470). Five years later, Thasos suffered the same fate. There were other// __insurrections__ //in the course of the next decades. The defeated towns were forced to remain in the League and if they had not been democratic yet, they were obliged to change their constitution. On several places, Athenian colonies (//__clerurchies)__ //were founded. Defeated towns also lost some// __autonomy__//, had to disband their navies, and were to pay tribute in cash. The last-mentioned measure made a second revolt almost impossible, because the defeated town that was dreaming of an// __insurrection__ //was actually paying the army that would come to suppress the rebellion.//**
 * //Slowly, Athens was converting the league into an empire. In 461, war broke out with Sparta, a conflict that almost naturally implied an ideological struggle between Ionianism and Dorianism, concepts that focused on leadership by Athens and Sparta. At the same time, the Delian League supported Inarus, an Egyptian who led a revolt against the Persians. The League lost an expeditionary force, and the Athenians immediately said that in this crisis, the treasury should be removed from the little island of Delos to a stronger// __citadel__ //- the acropolis of Athens.//**
 * //In 446, Athens and Sparta signed a peace treaty, and recognized each other as leaders of an alliance. (Perhaps the Athenians had signed a similar treaty with the Persian king in 449.) After this, the Athenians sta//****//rted to speak about "the cities which the Athenians rule". The transition of the League from a mutual defense organization into an empire was complete, and in the next ten years, we see an increasing Athenian involvement in local affairs.//** Trials involving an Athenian were to be held in Athens, the Athenians controlled the economy of the member states, represented them in negotiations with Sparta or Persia, and felt free to use the tribute for its own purposes . **//The splendid Parthenon temple, with its remarkable Ionian influences, is but one example to illustrate that Athens behaved like an// __imperialistic power__ //that felt free to use war contributions for other purposes.//**
 * //This quote is from [|www.livius.org]. It is part of the article on the Delian League.//**
 * //Make sure you are familiar with the terms underlined above.//**
 * //You do NOT have to memorise the differences between Ionianism and Dorianism, for your purposes you simply need to know that they believed in different approaches to allies.//**
 * //The text in the different font is important to remember because these were some of the conditions the Athenians imposed on their allies.//**