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
Greece was devastated, paving the way for Macedonia to take control, and use the combined resources to take over the Persian Empire.
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.
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.
The conflict between Athens and Sparta , known as the Peloponnesian War , was won by the city-state of Sparta .
Persia returned to running its empire, promoting stability and prosperity. Athens converted the anti-Persian Delian League into an empire of its own and tried to extablish dominance in the Greek world, leading to the destructive 27-year Peloponnesian war against and alliance led by Sparta.
It was stripped of its empire.
The Greek city-states of Asia Minor were released from Persian rule, and with the Persian threat repelled, the Greek city-states were free to go back to their endless fighting each other. Athens intensified this by turning the Delian League, which it had led against the Persians, into an empire of its own and using the strength to try to dominate the Greek world, leading to the destructive 27-year Peloponnesian War against the League led by Sparta.
After its defeat in the Peloponnesian War it was stripped of its empire and became a second rate power and had to live on its own means.
After 50 years of trying to impose peace on the ever-warring Greek city-states, the Persians gave up and agreed to leave them alone. This freed the Greek city-states to go back to fighting each other, culminating in the Peloponnesian War which devastated the Greek world.
Persia gave up trying to impose peace on the Greek cities and agreed to leave them alone to go back to their usual fighting of each other. Athens converted the anti-Persian league into an empire of its own and ended up in a major devastating war against the Peloponnesian League.
A peace was made with the Persian Empire. Athens converted the Delian League into an empire of its own and used the proceeds to enrich itself. It also used this power to intervene in the Greek cities outside this League, and this brought it into collision with the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta, resulting in the devastating 27-year Peloponnesian War. Athens lost, as stripped of its empire, and became a second rate power.