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What Is NATO and who led the alliance during the cold war?
NATO is an intergovernmental military alliance led by the United States during the Cold War
Which city-state won the Peloponnesian War?
No city won. The Sparta alliance with Persian backing defeated the Athens alliance or empire.
What city-state benifitted the most from the Persian Wars?
Athens converted the alliance it led into an empire of its own.
Who was involved in Persian Wars and who won?
The Persian Empire and an alliance of Greek city-states led first by Sparta and then Athens.
What were the consequenses of the Persian Wars?
Afterwards, Athens converted the alliance it had led in the latter stages into an empire of its own, and used and misused those resources, leading to the peloponnesian War against the alliance led by Sparta, which devastated the Greek world.
Who was the leader of a powerful alliance ok Greek city-states after the Persian Wars?
Sparta led the Peloponnesian League, Athens led the Delian League.
Who fought for control over Greece in the Peloponnesian War?
The war was not a contest for control of Greece, it was between the Athenian alliance/empire and the Spartan-led Peloponnesian alliance. Athens was taking its power too far and the Peloponnesian League drew a line in the san which Athens ignored, bringing on the war.
Who assisted Athens in defeating the Persian Empire in 480 BC?
Athens was part of an alliance of Greek city-states which varied in size from a couple of dozen to 180, led at first by Sparta, then later by Athens after defeat of the Persian invasion.
Which army was bigger during the Peloponnesian War Sparta or Athens?
The Athenian empire was stronger at sea, the alliance led by Sparta was stronger on land.
What wetre the two military alliances after the Persian war and who led them?
There were several alliance during the fifty-year war. One side was the Persian Empire. The other was varying coalitions of Greek city-states - first the Ionian League 499-493 led by Miletus, then a southern Greek coalition 480-479 led by Sparta, and then the Delian League 478-449 led by Athens.
What was the war between Athens and Sparta called?
The war between Athens and Sparta was the Peloponnesian War. the ancient Greeks called it the war between Athens and its allies and Sparta and its allies. The word Peloponnesian was used because the alliance led by Sparta against the Athenian empire was the Peloponnesian alliance, as most of the cities were in the Peloponnese Peninsula.
Why did the very different cultres of Athens and Sparta form an alliance?
As Greeks, their cultures were very similar. Their alliance was for self interest - Sparta aided Athens, and Athens reciprocated.
