How were the Peloponnesian War and the Persian War similar?

Answer 1

The Persian war ended the westward expansion of Persa and laid the foundation for the later taleover of western Asia by Alexander and the establishment of Greek culture.

The Peloponnesian War was n intensified continuation of the normal conflict between the hundreds of independent city-states, but solved nothing, warfare continuing amongst varying alliances of cities after it ended with Athens demoted to a second level power. However the serious losses opened the way for the rise of Macedonia, the takeover of the persian empire, and the post-Alexander of the split of his empire into warring Hellenistic kingdoms. These kingdoms imposed a superficial Greek culture in the Middle East.

Answer 2

Their nature was entirely different. The Persian War was a foreign invasion of Greece designed to reduce the city-states to Persian puppets and so establish peace throughout the eastern Mediterranean. The Peloponnesian War was a fratricidal war involving the Greek world from Sicily to Asia with two power groupings seeking to erode each other's dominance. The Persian invasion failed and reduced for a hundred years Persian control of the eastern Mediterranean, and their objective of a peaceful ethnic frontier including mainland Greece. The Peloponnesian War changed the power balance in the Greek world, initially in Sparta's favour, then Thebes, but this ongoing weakening of the Greeks allowed Persia to intervene and achieve what it had failed to do in its invasion - to impose the 'King's Peace' on Greece. The only similarity is the mayhem, loss of life and property, and disruption to life resulting from both.

Answer 3

Horrific death and dsetruction.

It is a mater of how they were different:

- the Persian War was an attempt by Persia to include the Greek cities within its empire to enforce peace.

- the Peloponnesian War was attempt by Athens to dominate the Greek world.

Answer 4

When the Greek city-states banded together to repel the Persian invasions, Athens and Sparta emerged as Persia's leading opponents. Athens' fleet destroyed the Persian Navy, while the Spartan Army led the defense on land. Once they had disposed of the Persian threat, the two former allies grew suspicious of one another. A similar thing happened after Russia and the US allied to defeat Nazi Germany, but became suspicious of one another after defeating Hitler in WWII.

Another View:

After defeat of the Persian invasion, Sparta proposed evacuating the Greek cities within the Persian Empire back to mainland Greece to remove the cause of war between Persia and the Greeks (this was actually done over two thousand years later after World War 1).

Athens had a better idea - to form an anti-Persian league from these cities in Persian territory, and guarantee the cities independence and protection. The cities could either contribute warships or pay the League for the upkeep of warships. Most gave money, and most of the money went to maintain Athens' superior fleet. Sparta, always inwards looking, stayed home in its own territory.

Athens was involved in several wars between Greek cities, and imagined itself impregnable, with the alliance fleet and its city walls at home, and became a standover power, intervening as it pleased. The cities of the Peloponnese resented this and looked to Sparta to lead resistance to Athenian domination.

After flashpoints at Corcyra and Potidaia, Athens took punitive action against its neighbour Megara, which was a member of the Spartan-led Peloponnesian League. Sparta demanded on behalf of the League that Athens cease action against Megara and with no response, warfare was opened - a bitter and devastating 27-year struggle which extended through the Greek world from Sicily to Asia Minor.

Answer 5

The first was a strugle for supremacy amongs the Greek city-states. The second was the Greek city states resisting absorption into the Persian empire.
The Peloponnesian war was a 27-year war between Greek city-states.

The Persian War was a 50-year war between the Persian Empire and a ouple of hundred Greek city-states.

Answer 6

After the end of the Persian War, Athens converted the cities of the Delian League, which opposed Persia for the final thirty years of the war, into an empire of its own.

Using the proceeds and strength it gained from this empire, Athens became aggressive to other Greek city-states which provoked the Peloponnesian War.