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2015 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
1. Introduction
verfasst von : Robert C. Whisonant
Erschienen in: Arming the Confederacy
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Abstract
Nowhere is the impact of mineral resources on the military history of western civilization better shown than by the story of the Battle of Salamis in 480 BCE, the culmination of the struggle between the Greeks and Persians for eastern Mediterranean hegemony. After blunting an earlier Persian threat at Marathon, the citizens of Athens were advised by the Oracle at Delphi that a “wooden wall” would save the city. The Athenians came to believe that this meant building a much larger fleet of ships and decided to use the revenue from the silver mines at nearby Laurion to accomplish the task. Silver from Laurion had long given Athens the financial means to support its rise to prominence in the Aegean world. Now, the citizens voted to forego their usual dividends from the mines, instead using the money to add 200 ships to their naval armada.