The Spartan alliance won the Peloponnesian War.
Athens was struck by plague early on, but fought with considerable success for another 25 years.
Athens lost the war because Persia ga
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Athens won the first Peloponnesian War but Sparta won the second war
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Athens lost the Peloponnesian War because it was overconfident. It took severe losses over the unexpected 27 years of the war, and eventually Persia bankrolled at competitive fleet for the opposing Peloponnesian League led by Sparta. Athens lost its fleet, and so was starved into submission.
There were two opposing power blocs - the Athenian empire and the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta. After the Peloponnesian War between the two when Athens lost, Sparta dominated temporarily for three decades until beaten and replaced by Thebes.
It involved the Greek in a destructive struggle for ascendancy between the Athenian empire, and the Peloponnesian league led by Sparta. It led to the dissolution of the Athenian empire, massive destruction in the Greek world, and solved little, with inter-city warfare continuing on amongst realigned allies afterwards.
Athens' democratic form of government (that is to say, for one year only; then the Sparta-installed oligarchs were overthrown again) was lost. Permanently lost, however, was Athens' economic and political power within Greece.
the Athens lost the peloponnesian war because Sparta had a bigger army on land and the Athens had a bigger navy. The geograpy was a great disadvantage in the war for the Athens because they couldn't use their navy on land.
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A 27 year war between Athens and its empire, and Sparta and its allies (known as the Peloponnesian League). Athens lost , was stripped of its empire, and became a second rate power in the Greek world.
Athens lost its empire and became a second rate power. Sparta lost too many of its limited military mapower and after a short period was displaced by Thebes as the leading Greek state.
No, Sparta became most powerful after Athens was defeated in the Peloponnesian War, was stripped of its empire and revenue, and so lost its golden age without the money it mulcted from its empire.
Athens never did recover from their lost of Persian during the plague. In 405 B.C the Sparta staged a blockade. The Spartans surrounded the Athens and closed their harbor with food and supplies. Beaten and starving they surrendered in 404 B.C.