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Title: The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : F.R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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nce when they saw how they had been outwitted. It was the Athe-nians who were most bitter against him, so he set to work to win the favor ofthe Olynthians. He helped them in recovering Potidaea from the Athenians,but treated the Athenian garrison with great kindness and allowed them to gohome in safety. Crossing the Strymon, Philip secured possession of the Pangaeus range ofmountains, belonging to the Athenians, and containing valuable gold mines.There he founded the famous town of Philippi, and through superior methodssecured a product from the gold mines of more than a million dollars annually. And all this time Athens could not raise a hand to prevent, because of thewar with her allies known as the Social War. This broke out in B.C. 357, andwas due to the heavy taxes laid upon the allies by Athens. They formed acoalition against the parent government, which two years later was compelledto assent to a disadvantageous peace, which secured the independence of themore important allies.
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Greece—The Sacred War 237 Everything seemed to work in favor of Philip. The Sacred War raged atthe same time as the Social War, and was between Thebes and Phocis. Therelations between those two countries, as we say in these days, had beenstrained for a long time, and the Phocians reluctantly joined the Theban alli-ance. They sullenly refused to give any assistance to Plpaminondas during hislast campaign in the Peloponnesus, and after his death they struck at Boeotiamore than once. The Amphictyonic Council was the central political and religious court ofthe leading Greek tribes, and was held twice a year. Its purpose was twofold:to determine questions of international law and to preserve the religious insti-tutions of the Greeks. It was a powerful means of binding the different tribesin a bond of brotherhood, but the pledges of its members were often broken,and it never checked the ambitious projects of a really able man. The Thebans used their influence in the Amphictyonic Council t

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