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What set Athens apart from it neighbors and adversaries according to Pericles?

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It was also the fact that the Persians burnt it down after the Ionian revolt. It was then rebuilder in the golden age after the battle of plataea when Sparta and Athens united
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Pericles thought that it was the democracy that set Athens that set it apart.........
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