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What was the major reason for Sparta's victory over Athens in the Peloponnesian War?
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∙ 9y ago
Persia provided a financial subsidy to Sparta which enabled it to double the pay of seamen and rowers, which Athens could not afford to match. This gave the Spartan alliance sea-parity with the Athenians. By careful planning they were able to catch the Athenian fleet beached with its crews dispersed feeding themselves at Aigospotamai, and captured it. Athens, without sea power and and penned up in the city, with no way of raising funds from its allies (empire) or procuring food, had to surrender.
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 9y agoThe Spartan general, Lysander, ran a successful blockade of Athens ports and city was under siege for almost a year. The citizens of Athens were facing starvation, so the city surrendered in 404 BC.
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∙ 10y agoLater in the Peloponnesian War 431-404 BCE the Spartan-led PeLopommesian League received money from Persia to build and man a fleet which could match that of Athens. This fleet caught the Athenian fleet on shore at Aigospotami (Gallipoli) in 405 BCE and destroyed it. They then besieged Athens and sent all the Athenian garrisons back home to help eat out the food and so starved the city into submission.
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∙ 9y agoIt had an alliance - the Peloponnesian League which was strong on land, but could not compete with Athens' navy. So Athens defended the walls of its city, imported food at will by sea as it controlled the sea lanes, and carried out amphibious attacks on Peloponnesian League cities, which consequently kept most of their armies at home in defence.
Persia, still smarting from the defeat inflicted on it by Greek forces led by Athens in the latter part of the Persian Wars, provided the Peloponnesian League with the money to build a competitive navy and hire the best crews. This fleet destroyed the Athenian fleet at Aigospotomai in 405 BCE, and Athens was left without its sea supply and starved into submission.
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∙ 7y agoThe Persians did not defeat the Spartans. If you are talking about the delaying action at Thermopylae, a small contingent of Spartans was part of the force which blocked the pass to the Persian invasion army. When this force was withdrawn, the Spartan and Thespians remained behind to cover the withdrawal and were overwhelmed and killed.
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∙ 11y agoPersia provided the Spartan alliance with enough money for it to provide double pay for sailors and so put together a navy which could match the Athenian one.
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∙ 14y agoyes but the Athens got revenge and got them non that's what i say for more info go to nationalgeographic .com or national geograpic.com
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What were the reason for Athens defeat in the peloponnesian war?
Athens was overconfident when it entered the war, imagining the combination of the money it collected from its empire, the strength of its walls, and the dominance of its navy would see it through. The Persians swung the balance, donating money to the Peloponnesian League to buy and man a fleet to match the Athenian one. With it's fleet defeated, its sea food route closed, and city besieged, Athens was starved out.
Where did the big battle between Athens and Sparta take place?
There were many battles between Athens and Sparta. They also fought on the same side several times. There was a war between Athens and its allies and Sparta and its allies, which we now call the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BCE) for no good reason, as it was fought throughout the Mediterranean from Sicily to Asia Minor. It contained many battles. Did you have one in particular in mind?
What was the major reason for the Sparta victory over Athens?
Persia provided The Spartan league with the money to build a war fleet which could outmatch the hitherto superior Athenian fleet.
What was the major reason for Sparta's victory over Athens?
Persia provided The Spartan league with the money to build a war fleet which could outmatch the hitherto superior Athenian fleet.
What was name of the battle of Athens and Sparta?
There were many battles between Athens and Sparta. They also fought on the same side several times. There was a war between Athens and its allies and Sparta and its allies, which we now call the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BCE) for no good reason, as it was fought throughout the Mediterranean from Sicily to Asia Minor. It contained many battles. Did you have one in particular in mind?
What made Greece and Athens become enemies?
Greece did not exist as a country in Ancient World. There were numerous Greek-city states including Athens, Sparta, Argos, Corinth just to name a few. The main reason a war broke out between Athens, its allies and the Peloponnesian league, was due to many reasons, such as Sparta's need to train in real war situations (Sparta didn't wage war very often) and battles for territory.
What were the causes of the decline of Athens and Sparta?
Sparta's reason is that they failed for military reasons and they went to war with Athens. Athen's reason is that they were conquered by the Roman Empire.
Why did greek settlements often fight one another?
If you are talking about Cities States and the Peloponnesian War is mainly because half of the states were in ally with Sparta and the other half were allies with Athens, plus some other neutral states. Sparta and Athens were the two dominant states back then, so when Athens started to gain more and more power, Sparta didn't like that. The possible reason why Sparta and Athens were in dispute all the time might be the governmental system, Sparta had an oligarchic system, and Athens a democratic system. Was like nowadays political parties.
What war started over trading rights with corinth?
It was part of the reason for the Peloponnesian War 431 BCE.
What was a reason for Peloponnesian War?
Athens converted the power and finances of the ant-Persian league to its own benefit and intervention in the affairs of the Greek cities. The vulnerable city-states joined a league with Sparta to oppose this. Athens' continuing aggressiveness brought Sparta's league to a final showdown over Megara, and when Athens would not back down, war was declared. Neither side foresay 27 years of destructiveness throught the whole Greek world, from Sicily to Asia Minor.
Who did Israel help in the Peloponnesian War?
At the time of the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BCE) Israel was under control of the Persian Empire, and so in no position to intervene in any of the Greek wars, not that it would have had any reason to meddle in Greek affairs anyway.
How did the peloponnesian war begin?
Athens used the power of its empire to intervene in the affairs of the southern Greek cities in the Peloponnesian Peninsula and their colonies. These incursions were principally in Corcyra and Potidaea and finally its trade rival Megara which Athens set out to bankrupt. The Peloponnesian League, led by Sparta, of which Megara was a member, demanded that Athens cease this; Athens refused and war broke out.
