After peace was agreed, Athens was able to convert the Delian League which it had led, into an Empire of its own, and brought on the 27-year Peloponnesian War which devastated the Greek world.
Darius I ruled Persia (The Persian Empire) in the 5th century BC.
Persia attempted to bring the Greek city-states under its control to stop wars spilling over into its empire. Some of the cities united to stop this, resulting in 50 years of warfare until the Persians gave up and left the cities to go back to fighting each other.
Lydia, a region and once a kingdom on the Western end of Asia Minor. The first coins were minted there. The death of Lydia's King Croesus sparked events which led to the two Persian Wars in the 5th Century BC.
Nobody knows. The statue was long thought to be an Etruscan work of the 5th century BC. Some modern examinations, however, have given the result that it was probably manufactured in the 13th century AD; this result is still contested.
The periods of ancient Greek civilization were:The Archaic Period - 9th to 6th Century BCEThe Classical Period - 5th to 4th Century BCEThe Hellenistic Period - 3rd to 1st Century BCEThe Roman Period - 1st Century BCE to 5th Century CEByzantine Greece - 5th to 25th Century CE.
Sparta remained a dominant military power until later wars erode its strength to the stage where Thebes defeated Sparta and took over dominance.became the dominant
After 50 years , the Persians gave up trying to enforce peace on the ever-warring Greek city-states, and left them to go back to fighting each other.
Athens, having established an anti-Persian league, continued it on after peace with the Persians, and used its funds to maintain its navy and turn the league into an empire. This brought it into conflict with the Peloponnesian League formed to counterbalance Athens' power. The result was a destructive 27 year war which devastated the Greek world.
14th century BCMid 5th century BC the ruins of the Persian Greek wars were removed and the Athens Acropolis was build and stayed as we know the monument today.
Athens, which headed a coalition to oppose the Persian Empire in the latter part of the Persian War, duplicitously turned this league into an empire of its own when the war ended, and removed the league's treasury to Athens to use for its own purposes.
The anti-persian alliance was formed by the Greeks during the 5th century BCE for mutual protection.
In the aftermath, Athens harnessed the Asiatic Greek city-states which it had helped liberate from Persian Empire rule, into an empire of its won, and misused its strength to the point of bringing on the Peloponnesian War with the other Southern Greek city-states, a devastating 27-year war, which so weakened all of them that they became easily dominated by the rising power of Macedonia.
Confederations of Greek city-states defeated the Persian attempts to impose peace on them, in several battles over forty years - the Persians gave up and left the Greek cities to go back to fighting amongst each other.
Darius I ruled Persia (The Persian Empire) in the 5th century BC.
Persia attempted to bring the Greek city-states under its control to stop wars spilling over into its empire. Some of the cities united to stop this, resulting in 50 years of warfare until the Persians gave up and left the cities to go back to fighting each other.
Lydia, a region and once a kingdom on the Western end of Asia Minor. The first coins were minted there. The death of Lydia's King Croesus sparked events which led to the two Persian Wars in the 5th Century BC.
The Persian empire.Note: Athens was also fighting with the Spartans, see the Pelopponnesian war.