What led to the fall of Athens in ancient Greece?

Answer 1

It's basic problem started when Pericles died early in the Peloponnesian War which he had led Athens into. His self-promoting successors led the people in assembly voles to commit to actions which ended in their defeat and loss of the empire which Pericles had helped them establish. The city had to revert to more conservative government than the radical democracy to survive.

Answer 2

The Athenians never had an empire as such. The Athenian city-state was over run and incorporated into the Greek Empire by Philip of Macedon, Alexander the great's father.

"The Greeks likewise assembled their largest army since the Persian invasion to face the Macedonian invasion. At Chaeronea in central Greece where the two armies met, the whole of Greece put 35,000 infantry and 2,000 cavalry on the field, while the Macedonians had 30,000 infantry and 2,000 cavalry. Although outnumbered, with suburb[sic] tactics and well coordination of the phalanx with the cavalry, the Macedonian 'barbarian' defeated the united Greek army. Among the Greeks, the Athenians, Thebans, and the Achaeans suffered the biggest losses.

The ancient Roman and Greek historians, consider the battle of Chaeronea, on August 2nd, 338 BC as an end to Greek liberty and history." -

Philip of Macedon Philip II of Macedon Biography

King of Macedonia and conqueror of Illyria, Thrace, and Greece

Answer 3

Since its establishment in 508 BCE, Athens operated under a form of direct democracy, where every eligible voter decided upon political matters rather than electing representatives to do so for them.

While the system of government was intermittently interrupted by various tyrannical and oligarchic regimes, Athens more or less tended to revert back to a democracy when civil unrest brought upheavals.

At the same time, however, Athens was also embroiled in a number of conflicts with its neighbors, notably Sparta and Macedonia. The Athenian system allowed the electorate to directly influence whether the city-state went to war, and more often than not, war was the chosen path. This led to Athens becoming increasingly weakened by conflict, having suffered decisive defeats against Sparta and Syracruse in 413 BCE. Eventually, the city-state was conquered by Philip II of Macedonia in 338 BCE, which ended its democratic government as well as its independent status.

Answer 4

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