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1. Historians have come to call the Spartan Alliance and Athenian Alliance of the early to mid fifth century what respectively?
2. Under the leadership of Themistocles Athens became the greatest naval power in the Eastern Mediterranean but Cimon, his successor, pursued a pro-Sparta foreign policy. Around 464 BC, Athens reversed course and its foreign policy became anti-Spartan. Why?
3. In 460 BC, the rivalry between Sparta and Athens and allies escalated into a war. What have historians traditionally called this conflict?
4. One of the first mistakes by one side occurred in 435 BC when Democrats in Epidamnus, a coastal northwestern Greek city settled by the island of Corcyra, asked the Corcyreans for assistance in a war with various tribes and oligarchs attempting to seize power. The Cocyreans turned them down, so the Democrats turned for assistance, with success, from this great Greek city. Name the city.
5. After a series of successful naval battles with the Corinthians, the Corcyreans felt pressured by the greater resources of Corinth and turned to help from Athens in 433 BC. After a series of speeches at Athens, in which both sides pleaded their cases to the Athenian Assembly, Athens agreed to help the Corcyreans. What was the main reason the City of Pericles helped?
6. What type of alliance did Athens make with Corcyra?
7. The next flashpoint occurred in this Northeastern Greek city around 433-432 BC in the Thracian Chalcadice peninsula. What was the city?
8. By now the conflict between Corinth and Athens had the full attention of Sparta and the rest of the Peloponnesian League and war was being debated in the Spartan Assembly. But first Athens issued the Megarian Decree. What was it?
9. According to Thucydides, the conflicts over Corcyra, Potidaea and the Megaran Decree were all mere pretexts for the war between the Sparta Alliance and the Athenian Empire. What was the famous reason he gave for the Great Peloponnesian War?
10. What event actually started hostilities between the Spartan and Athenian Alliances?
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