In the second half of the war, it led the Delian League of 180 Greek city-states, providing most of the naval force at their expense. After the Persian Empire agreed to peace, Athens kept collecting the war funds by force of its navy and spent the money on itself, and kept going a navy superior to any of the other Greek cities and leagues.
Error and exaggeration. Athens was a member of a coalition of up to 200 city-states which fought the wars against Persia.
The Persians would have won if Sparta and Athens had not united to fight the Persian Army
Persian War
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First define Persian War II. The Persian War ran 499-449 BCE - it had several phases - Ionian Revolt, Persian punitive expedition against Eretria and Athens, Persian invasion of mainland Greece, Greek counter-offensive. Which among this are supposed to be 'Second Persian War', 'Second Persian War' and 'Third Persian War'?
Athens led 180 eastern Greek city-states against the Persians in the last 30 years of the 50-year Persian War.
In order to defeat the Persians in the Second Persian War, Athens built a tremendous fleet and formed an alliance with many seafaring city-states in Greece and Ionia, with Athens at its head. Eventually, the Delian League became the basis for Athenian Empire.
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, …
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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
On tthe Persian side, the Persian king. On the Greek side, first Sparta, then Athens.
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.