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
Athens and its empire versus the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta.
Persian Wars:Persia's attempt to maintain peace amongst it Greek cities by bringing the rest of the Greek east inside its borders. Persia lost.Peloponnesian War:Athens' over-reach with its empire and Peloponnesian resistance to this. Athens lost its empire.
It was stripped of its empire.
The conflict between Athens and Sparta , known as the Peloponnesian War , was won by the city-state of Sparta .
Persian War: The Greek cities of Asia Minor provided a third of the Persian navy for the 480 invasion of southern Greece. The Greek city states of central Greece provided a substantial part of the Persian army which fought the southern Greek armies. Peloponnesian War: Athens and the cities in its empire fought the mainly Peloponnesian cities led by Sparta.
The Peloponnesian League in 404 BCE.
Persian War - A varying coalition of Greek city-states defeated the Persian Empire between 499 and 449 BCE. A league of Peloponnesian city-states led by Sparta defeated Athens and its empire 431 to 404 BCE.
After the persian wars, athens used the anti-Persian league to further its own interests, interfering in the affairs of other Greek cities. A Peloponnesian Leage was formed to oppose it. Athens persisted in trying to dominate, the Peloponnesians resisted, and war ensued.
Were you talking about the Greek Persian and Peloponnesian Wars? If so, the Persian war was between the invading Persians and the defending Greeks, who formed a league in which the military was led by one of the Spartan kings. (Sparta had two kings at the same time.) In the Peloponnesian War, it was the Delian League (Athens and allies) vs. the Peloponnesian League (Sparta and allies) Sparta ended up beating Athens after destroying their fleet.
The Delian League led by Athens and the Peloponnesian League led by Athens.
Athens deviously converted the Delian League formed to fight the Persian Empire into an empire of its own. The Athenian Empire then came into conflict with the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta, ending in the disastrous 27-year Peloponnesian War, at the end of which Athens was stripped of its empire.