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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.

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Well cause in there times there were alot of tradeing happening causing them to take things into there own hand

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Their military defeat & their loss in the Peloponnesian War. Sparta burned all of the Athenian food supply and a plague also occurred in Athens which killed 1/3 of the population.

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A huge war with the spartans

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