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What cities in the Athenian empire paid to Athens adding to its wealth?
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Nearly two hundred cities, mainly around the Aegean and Black Seas and the Islands, which originally were part of the anti-Persian Delian League, which Athens turned into an empire after the Persian threat subsided, converting the annual levy for defence to its own private use. The funds were collected ruthlessly by force if necessary. The funds were also used to finance the Athenian navy which did this collecting each year.
Three cities did not pay, as they maintained ships to augment the Athenian fleet - Samos, Lesbos and Chios. Many cities periodically refused to pay, and the records of Athenian show an annual death toll of Athenian soldiers who died in collecting the revenue by force. The first to be dealt with was Naxos; others followed. Eventually Samos also resisted and was captured and punished.
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What happened to the athenian empire when pericules declared war?
It continued on for another 25 years of war against the Peloponnesian League until Athens was compelled to surrender, and Athens was stripped of the cities which were under its domination.
Was the Athenian Empire popular amongst its subjects?
Originally it offered protection against Persia, provided the cities paid up their annual tax to pay for the upkeep of the Athenian fleet which protected them. However when peace was made with Persia, Athens still collected the money, by force if necessary, which it spent on itself. When Athens got into a war withe the Peloponnesian League, it dragged the cities into it. Not too many advantages there.
What were they fighting over in the Peloponnesian War?
Athens had turned the league of Greek cities which was established to defend against Persia into an empire and when the Persian threat subsided, used the revenue for its own aggrandisement and to further its own interests. Other cities objected and turned to Sparta for leadership. There were several inter-city disputes bubbling and Corinth and other cities pressed Sparta to intervene. The final straw was Athens banning Megara from trade within the Athenian empire, which wpould have ruined it. Sparta asked Athens to relent, which was refused and war was declared.
What were pericles' three goals for Athens?
(1) to strengthen athenian democracy(2) to hold and strngthen the empire (3)to glorify Athens
What was the league formed by the free Greek cities to appose the Athenian Empire?
I believe it was the Hanseatic League
What were pericles goal for the Athens?
To strengthen Athenian democracy, to hold and strengthen he empire, and to glorify Athens
What happened to the athenian empire when pericules declared war?
It continued on for another 25 years of war against the Peloponnesian League until Athens was compelled to surrender, and Athens was stripped of the cities which were under its domination.
How did Pericles expand the Athenian empire?
Athens was just a city-state, but led a league of 180 cities to protect them from Persian rule. When the Persian Empire agreed to peace, Athens kept control of the cities, and sent the war fleet raised against the Persians around to the cities each year to force them to keep paying the war fund contributions, effectively converting the Delian League into an empire of its own.
How did the Athenian empire develop after its victory over Persia in Marathon?
There was no Athenian empire at the battle of Marathon. Athens fought there with one minor ally Plataia. Athens developed an empire 50 years later from the anti-Persian alliance known as the Delian League.
Why were tributes important to Athens?
Initially they were the payments which supported the fleet of the Delian League - mostly Athenian - which kept the Persians away from the 200 Greek cities of the League. When Persia agreed to peace, Athens continued to extort these payments from and used them to beautify the city and keep half its own population on the public payroll, and to continue to maintain the Athenian navy which extorted these annual payments from the cities. This became effectively an empire for Athens. After losing the Peloponnesian War Athens was stripped of this empire and reverted to being a second-rate power, reliant on its own limited resources.
Why the peloponnesian war was fought?
Athens' expansionist activities were opposed by the Peloponnesian League headed by Sparta. Continuing Athenian pressure on cities outside its empire resulted in a series of clashes which led to war between the two power blocs.
What happened to the Athenian Empire when Pericles declared war?
Pericles didn't declare war. He persuaded the Athenian people to discontinue negotiations on the Spartan alliance's ultimatum on lifting Athens' trade ban on Megara, and so both sides moved into hostilities, initiated by a Spartan alliance invasion of Attica followed by Athenian amphibious raids. Some of the cities in the Athenian alliance (empire) defected progressively or tried to stay out of the war, but Athens continued to attempt to collect the tribute, by force if necessary as usual. After Athens' defeat by the Spartan alliance 27 years later it ceased to exist.
What were the three goals Athens and Pericles wanted to accomplish?
Pericles had three goals for Athens. The first was to strengthen democracy. The second was to expand the empire. The third was to beautify Athens.
Was the Athenian Empire popular amongst its subjects?
Originally it offered protection against Persia, provided the cities paid up their annual tax to pay for the upkeep of the Athenian fleet which protected them. However when peace was made with Persia, Athens still collected the money, by force if necessary, which it spent on itself. When Athens got into a war withe the Peloponnesian League, it dragged the cities into it. Not too many advantages there.
How did the Greeks victory over the Persians help bring about on athenian empire?
Athens got together a league of about 180 Greek cities to continue the war, and extracted funds for them to pay for it. After 449 when Persia agreed to peace, Athens continued to extract the funds, by force if necessary, keeping its dominant navy paid for and the cities expense and diverting some to glorifying its city. The anti-Persian leage effectively became an empire of Athens.
What were pericles three main goals for Athens?
1.) strengthen Athenian democracy. 2.) hold and strengthen empire. 3.) clarify Athens.
What was Athens like at the age of Pericles of economy?
The Athenian economy boomed because Athens ripped off annual contributions from up to 200 other cities, collected by force if necessary. It collapsed when the Peloponnesian League defeated Athens and stripped it of its empire, and Athens collapsed into a second rate country.
