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They provided the impetus to form an anti-Persian alliance headed by Athens. When peace was made with Persia after 50 years of intermittent fighting, Athens converted this league into an empire of its own, and its expansionary tendencies brought it into confrontation with the Peloponnesian League, resulting in the 27-year Peloponnesian War which devastated the Greek world from Sicily to Asia Minor.

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In its wake were two leagues of Greek city-states led by Athens and Sparta respectively, which proceded to fight each other for 27 years and devastate the Greek world.

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