Essays Tagged: "Ionian"
Crucial Battles of the Persian Wars
ANCIENT HISTORY ASSESSMENT TASK - Ben PilgrimSalamis or PlataeaThe Ionian revolt provoked the Greeks and the Persians to start what is known as the Persian Wars. With ... d the Greeks and the Persians to start what is known as the Persian Wars. With the large pockets of Ionians living in Persia getting more and more discontent, a revolt was imminent. The first thing th ... ng in Persia getting more and more discontent, a revolt was imminent. The first thing the revolting Ionians set out to do was to rid the Ionian cities of tyrants and set up democracies in their place. ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Middle Eastern History
"Battle of Marathon" This essay talks about the great Battle of Marathon during the Persian Wars in ancient Greece 490 BCE
ns interest in Athens, Attica and the Peloponnese. When Athens sent a small fleet in support of the Ionian rebels they immediately gave Persia a new target for further expansion. The failure of the re ... d never stood their ground against a Persian attack. Every major battle during the six years of the Ionian revolt demonstrated that the Greeks preferred to defend their cities rather that fight out in ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
Philosophy Before Socrates - Early Ionian Achievement
Is the early Ionian approach to accounting for the events in the world an improvement over that of the Old Testam ... and rigorously demonstrating such truths. Given these assumptions, it is indeed true that the early Ionians had a better account of the world than the author(s) of the Old Testament.The Old Testament ... orary cultures, the Judaic belief in monotheism was also a step forward, logically speaking. As the Ionian Xenophanes later stated, "it is unholy for any of the gods to have a master" (McKirahan, 62). ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy
Origins of the Modes of Major Scales
welve equal intervals, you get the well-tempered chromatic scale. The names of the church modes are Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, and Locrian, and they match geographic or eth ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies
Italy Report: Discussing Canada's trading relationship with Italy
des. Italy is located in southern Europe and is surrounded by the Mediterranean, Tyrrhenian, Ionian and Adriatic Sea's. Like Canada, they are a democratic country with a mixed-market economic s ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics > Foreign & International Economics
Risk and the 1500s
split into 3 separate parts, the Archidamian War (431-421), the Peace of Nicias (421-415), and the Ionian war (415-405). The Peloponnesian War started when Thebes, a Spartan ally, attacked Plataea, a ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History