People died needlessly and places were devastated, pursuing the interests of specific aristocratic leaders.
The Trojan War was in reality a looting expedition by the Achaeans (Greeks) who pillaged western Asia Minor and the Islands for a decade. The Achaean aristocracy got most of the loot and enslaved people and Asia Minor was devastated.
The Persian War was an attempt by the Persian Empire to impose peace on the Eastern Mediterranean under it's overall control, but ended up as achieving nothing but 50 years of war, but also allowed Athens to make an empire of it's own by seizing control of the cities it had allied against the Persian Empire.
The Peloponnesian War flowed from from Athens' grab for empire, as this success led it to try to dominate the other Greek cities outside its empire. When this was resisted by the Peloponnesian League, a 27 year-war followed which devastated the Greek world.
The persian war lasted way longer the the peloponnesian war and the persian wars was a whole bunch of different mini wars
Persian.
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.
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why is the Trojan war and the Persian war different
Contrast the results of the Persian and Peloponnesian war with regards to Athens greece
Persian War 499-449 BCE. then Peloponnesian War 431-404 BCE.
Persian War - the Persian Empire versus varying coalitions of Greek city-states. Peloponnesian War - the Athenian Empire versus the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta.
The Peloponnesian War 431 to 404 BC then the Greco-Roman Wars from 499 BC and lasted until 449 BC
Sparta led a coalition of Peloponnesian city-states which we today call the Peloponnesian League. It was already in existence before the Persian Wars - comprising the Dorian city-states of southern Greece.
Corinth fought on the winning side in both wars.
For the Greeks, the Persian War was warding off Persian dominance. The Peloponnesian War was a protracted fight to terminate the Athenian Empire's attempt to dominate the other Greek city-states.