It continued to extort the war contributions from the Delian League cities after the war ehded. This money it spent on maintaining its fleet to take the money, and spent it on glorifying the city, supporting its culture and lifestyle, and keeping half its own population on the public payroll.
The gold enabled a Golden Age.
The city was not destroyed during the Persian invasion and occupation as the Persians used its accommodation as a base. They did however destroy the temples and gods as payback for the destruction of the statues and temples by Athenian soldiers in the Persian provincial capital of Sardis two decades earlier when Athens sent a force to Asia Minor to help a revolution by the cities of Ionia.
When the Persians left Athens in 479 BCE, the Athenians rebuilt the city walls and also built two walls providing a protected connection to the city's port. The work was done by its citizens and slaves using whatever materials they could lay hands on, so it cost time and effort, not money.
Athens got money later on from getting paid by other city-states so their navy could protect them from the ongoing Persian threat. After the Persian threat receded they diverted the money for their own public works (Parthenon etc) a fleet to dominate the other cities and keep half their population on the public payroll.
Athens first rebuilt its defensive walls. The agora was its market place, and much lower priority.
Contrast the results of the Persian and Peloponnesian war with regards to Athens Greece
Persian War I, Persian War II, The Peloponnesean War, The Macedonian War, …
Athens.
In the second half of the war Athens assumed leadership of 200 cities threatened by the Persian Empire. It collected annual money contributions from the cities to maintain its fleet which was the backbone of resistance. After the Persians agreed to stay away from the citines, Athens turned the cities into an Empire of its own, continuing to collect thw war funds by force and living high on the hog with that money.
Athens.
By the Persian king Xerxes.
Contrast the results of the Persian and Peloponnesian war with regards to Athens greece
First explain what this third Persian war was then it might be possible to answer.
Sparta and Athens were allies against Persia in the Persian War.
The Persians would have won if Sparta and Athens had not united to fight the Persian Army
In the later stage of the Persian War, Athens lled an anti-Persian league after Sparta retired from the leadership to handle its own sever internal problems. When peace was arranged with Persia, Athens continued to collect the financial contributions from the Greek cities of the Delian League, moved the treasury from Delos to Athens, and spent the money on itself and maintaining its fleet which it used to extort the money from the League members. The League was thus effectively converted to an empire of Athens. Athens became overconfident and interfered in the affairs of the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta, and this led to the eloponnesian War.