Quotes About History

The Athenians had failed in the fifth century BCE; now it was to be the turn of the Spartans.

Athens and the Greek peninsula marked the western limit of the three great Hellenistic kingdoms

Victory over Athens simply replaced a much-resented Athenian empire with a Spartan one that would soon be resented

the Greek city-states of Sicily had been fighting off their rivals, the Carthaginians

Carthage, in modern Tunisia, had grown from its origins as a Phoenician settlement

the Antigonid kingdom of Macedonia also made an alliance with Hannibal.

Sicily had been effectively divided between the Greeks in the east of the island and the Carthaginians in the west.

But then Cyrus was killed in a battle on the banks of the Euphrates in 401 BCE.

the 'decline and fall of the Roman empire' began with the death of Marcus

From Antioch, the crusaders went on their way to Jerusalem to seize the city and massacre everyone in it on 15 July 1099.

After the death of Commodus in 192 CE, civil war and empire-wide chaos lasted

the world's first functioning democracy is usually said to have been created in Athens during the years 508–507 BCE.

224 CE, a new Persian dynasty, the Sassanids, came to power.

they did so by invitation of the pharaoh.

As the century wore on, the Delian League was matched by the 'Peloponnesian League'

during the 460s BCE, Athenian democracy had been radically overhauled.

This was what the Spartans had most dreaded for centuries. Now it came to pass.

Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (the Great), better known in English as Pompey

compelling the Spartans to grant them their liberty as an autonomous city-state?

Others may have been burnt alive.

Pompey went on to roll up what little was left of the Seleucid kingdom of Asia three years later

One by one, the great cities of the east were either sacked by the Persians or surrendered:

Sparta would become increasingly marginalised in Greek affairs from this time on.

providing the leadership that had eluded both Athens and Sparta for so long.