The top officials of Athens fully agreed to these humiliating peace conditions. Because they did not agree or did not sign, the Spartan warriors might turn the entire city of Athens into a dead city or even into ruins. After all, even if it is

When the Spartans attacked Athens, other city-states would not help. What is even more terrifying is that the Persian king Xerxes would also assist the Spartans in attacking Athens. Is this a joke?

At this point, the great sea battle between Sparta and Athens came to an end, and the Spartan fleet also began to take over all the Athenian business on the sea, that is, to extract the resources and slaves of the coastal tribes, and the Spartans also became

Dominant leader in the Greek Empire.

After the King of Sparta once again presented a large amount of gold and silver treasures to King Xerxes of Persia, King Xerxes of Persia asked their Persian fleet to return to the Persian Empire. Originally King Xerxes of Persia wanted to directly destroy Athens.

But considering that the entire Greek city-states will resist, this will lead to an even more outrageous war, and Xerxes cannot do this now. After all, the overall strength of the Greek Empire is not weak, so Xerxes believes that he must continue

etc.

After the Spartans gained maritime hegemony, they plundered resources and slaves wantonly. Then the Spartans also had absolute dominance in the Greek Empire, so the Spartans were even more aggressive than the original Athenians.

Thousand times more, because the Spartans actually treated all the city-states in the entire Greek Empire, except for the Spartans, as slaves, and exploited them extremely viciously, even sometimes as if they were robbing.

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The other city-states in the Greek Empire dared to be angry but did not dare to speak out, because the current Spartan city-state was too powerful. Whether it was warships at sea or troops on land, they could not easily defeat it.

Another is the character of the Spartans, or we can say that in fact, the war between the Athenians and the Spartans was just a civil war, and this civil war can be understood based on the concept of King Xerxes of Persia.

, that is, no matter whether the city-state of Sparta wins or the city-state of Athens wins, what will ultimately weaken is the strength of the entire Greece. This is just like the current Athens, which was once extremely prosperous and powerful, and even had maritime hegemony, but now it is completely in ruins.

Because Athens currently no longer even has the power to have a navy.

This is also a strategy of the Spartans. They are worried that the Athenians will go to the sea again to retaliate against the Spartans. Maybe the Spartans think that they are very powerful, but they just do not consider the overall interests of Greece. And then there is what we have said before.

What I mean is that the Spartans treated all the people in the Greek city-states as slaves, as if all the people and slaves in the Greek empire were only serving their Spartans.

The occurrence of this situation made more people in the Greek city-states begin to have murderous intentions towards the Spartans, but they could not defeat the Spartans. Therefore, the current situation of the Greek Empire is quite strange, and just now

At this moment, King Xerxes of Persia actually started to sow discord and made a big fuss about the last time he assisted the Spartans in attacking the Athenian fleet. King Xerxes of Persia said:

When the Spartan envoy met him, he said that the Spartans themselves wanted to enslave everyone in Greece to serve them. As the king of the Persian Empire, he was unwilling to help the Spartans at first, but

Finally thinking about it, it was to weaken the strength of the entire Greece anyway, so he agreed as a hostile. But later when he saw the humiliating surrender of the city of Athens, and even more Athenian naval soldiers died in a tragic manner at sea, he acted as a benevolent

The King of Persia felt the severe pain in his heart, so he evacuated his own Persian fleet and drew a clear line with the Spartans. Therefore, as the King of Persia now, he is not willing to watch the entire Greek Empire fall apart.

Become a slave to the Spartans, thereby weakening the strength of the entire Greece. In this way, there will be nothing to fight with them in the future. The Persians can flatten the entire Greece in an instant!

As for whether this kind of words to sow discord really came from the words of King Xerxes of Persia, in fact, the people in Greece did not know at all, but they knew that according to these rumors, this was indeed what the Spartans did.

Yes, he was right, so everyone in the Greek city-state began to plan how to kill the Spartans.

The Spartans obviously knew that this was just a rumor created by King Xerxes of Persia, but they also understood that whether it was their strongest army in the Greek Empire or their fleet that still dominates the sea,

These are no match for the Persian Empire. The Persian Empire's army can completely destroy the Spartans in an instant. Maybe the Spartans were very arrogant before, but now they fully understand the power of the Persian Empire, and even more so.

The insidious plot of King Xerxes of Persia.

Under the instigation of discord by King Xerxes of Persia, conflicts arose among the various Greek city-states, because they all needed to unite and resist the tyranny of the Spartans together! But who would be the resister?

Where is the supreme commander? This created a great contradiction. In addition, under the tyranny of Sparta, the civilians of the entire Greece fell into a situation of being starved of food and clothing.

, even if it is not really like this, the day when it will be like this is not far away. After all, the Spartans just regarded them as actual slaves, and they knew it well by now, so this led to the Greek Empire

Small conflicts occurred among the various city-states to snatch resources. Because they could not defeat the Spartans unless they were completely united, they could only grab some resources from those they could.

The birth of these factors and the eventual occurrence of the situation, anyway, all of a sudden, the entire Greek empire fell into a monstrous civil war, with various city-states fighting every day! And eventually a fire broke out, which evolved into

, it’s either you die or I die.

When King Xerxes of Persia learned about this situation, he sat on his throne and smiled happily, because Xerxes understood that in order to end this kind of civil war, violence must be used! Because the top leaders of Greece

There is absolutely no ability to solve this problem without violence. Once more violence occurs, it will cause the death of a large number of civilians and even soldiers, which will indirectly weaken the overall strength of the entire Greece again.

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Let’s put the above topics aside for now, because the civil war in Greece lasted for many years, during which too many people must have died. In short, Greece will eventually decline even more because of this civil war. There is no doubt that, and now we will start

Let’s analyze some of the extraordinary progress of our human ancestors that took place in Greece during this era.

We have also said before that the city-state of Athens has achieved the foundation of democracy, but the treatment of slaves is another matter. However, legal citizens in the city-state of Athens enjoy all the rights of democracy, and life is very good so far. Here,

In this case, they don't have to work hard all day just to survive, which means they have more time to think.

While we had more time to think, several very powerful people appeared in the city of Athens. First, let’s get to know one of the madmen!

This madman is a product of democratic rights. He has more time to think about everything instead of working hard for daily livelihood.

In the democratic city of Athens, judges are basically based on the opinions of the people. That is to say, as long as a group of people think that someone is guilty, that person will probably not be able to escape the guilt. Of course, this is also a drawback of democratic rights.

, if we have the opportunity later, we will analyze it together.

As for Democritus, a legal citizen of Athens, he experienced a democratic trial. What is ridiculous is that he was brought to court by his own tribe, and his tribe’s accusation against Democritus

Yes: Democritus was a madman, who studied the heresy that the world is composed of atoms every day, and ignored household affairs. And his tribe's request was to send Democritus to a lunatic asylum, because in this way, his tribe could invade

his property.

The court must act in accordance with the law, so it invited the Western medical saint Hippocrates. Who was Hippocrates? He was a great Greek doctor in this era. The influence of Hippocrates has actually continued to us today.

In modern times, according to legend, he wrote about seventy medical books, and Hippocrates also summarized the responsibilities that doctors should have towards patients and society. To this day, it is still what doctors pursue.

Target.

Okay, let's get back to our topic. Now the medical saint Hippocrates has also been invited, and then the court will try Democritus. After the court debate, the medical saint Hippocrates believes that Democritus

The special atomic theory was not a heresy, and Democritus was diagnosed on the spot, that is, a brain diagnosis! So far, the hopes of Democritus’s tribe were in vain, because the court finally ruled that Democritus was not only not a madman

, and he is also a philosopher with outstanding wisdom!

The diagnosis of Hippocrates, the true physician, was correct, because later history confirmed this. Later Democritus was not only a very outstanding philosopher, but also the first encyclopedia in the Greek Empire

A scholar!

Democritus's lifelong research involved astronomy, geography, biology, physics, mathematics, logic and many other fields, and he also wrote many original ideas and monographs.

Now let's take a closer look at the life of Democritus, who was called a madman by his tribe.

Democritus was born in Abdera, Thrace. He had a very strong interest in natural science since he was a child, and he also liked learning and thinking. Democritus once visited Persia and learned from the Persian magicians and
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