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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.
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∙ 10y agoThe 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.
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Why did Athenians rebuild Agora first after the Persian war?
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?
Contrast the results of the Persian and Peloponnesian war with regards to Athens Greece
What events strikes the Athens during the war?
Persian War I, Persian War II, The Peloponnesean War, The Macedonian War, …
Who was the strongest leader of Athens after it emerged from the Persian War?
Athens.
How did Athens gain status from the Persian War?
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.
Who lead the Deleon league in the Persian war?
Athens.
During the Persian War Athens was destroyed by a Persian force led by the emperor?
By the Persian king Xerxes.
Contrast the results of the Persian and peloponnesian wars with regard to Athens?
Contrast the results of the Persian and Peloponnesian war with regards to Athens greece
What did the Athens trun the boats into in the thrid Persian war?
First explain what this third Persian war was then it might be possible to answer.
What led to the Persian War between the Spartans and Athenians?
Sparta and Athens were allies against Persia in the Persian War.
How could the Persian war have ended if Sparta and Athens had not united to fight the Persian Army?
The Persians would have won if Sparta and Athens had not united to fight the Persian Army
How did the Greek victory in the Persian war both unify Greece and lead to the rivalry between Athens and Sparta in the peloponnesian war?
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.
