it converted the Delian League which it had led against the Persians into an empire of its own and lived high on the proceeds - its Golden Age.
It led the anti-Persian league, became democratised and established an emprie.
No one. Athens organised its empire in the aftermath of the Persian invasion. Sparta minded its own business. None of the other city-states were in a position to dominate anyone.
The Persian army went on to torch the city of Athens .
It was the site of a battle between Athens and Plataea and a Persian expeditionary force sent to take over Athens and reinstall an Athenian tyrant to prevent it causing further trouble within the Persian Empire. The Athenians repelled the Persian force at the battle.
Greece was dominated by Athens after the Persian wars.
In the aftermath, Athens harnessed the Asiatic Greek city-states which it had helped liberate from Persian Empire rule, into an empire of its won, and misused its strength to the point of bringing on the Peloponnesian War with the other Southern Greek city-states, a devastating 27-year war, which so weakened all of them that they became easily dominated by the rising power of Macedonia.
The Persians would have won if Sparta and Athens had not united to fight the Persian Army
Persian Empire
Contrast the results of the Persian and Peloponnesian war with regards to Athens greece
Contrast the results of the Persian and Peloponnesian war with regards to Athens Greece
The Persian Empire .
By the Persian king Xerxes.