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World History Spine · Classical worlds

Ancient Greece & Athens

Small, rival city-states produced democracy, philosophy, history-writing and drama, beat the Persian Empire, then destroyed themselves in the Peloponnesian War: the original 'Thucydides trap'.

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Prereqs: Writing, money & law. Next: Persia & Alexander. Crash Course World History #5; Yale CLCV 205 (Kagan); Thucydides; pairs with Great Minds: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle.
Next: 1. The polis

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