The Spartan confederation accepted Persian money to raise a fleet which could match the Athenian one.
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No. As leader of the anti-Persian Delian League they were natural enemies. The Persians provided money to the opposing Peloponnesian League led by Sparta.
Athens lost the Peloponnesian War.A major contributing factor was the Persians giving financial support to the Spartan alliance which enabled them to assemble a fleet to match that of the Athenians.
The Persians gave money to the Peloponnesian alliance to raise a fleet which could match the one of the Athenian alliance.
The Ionian Revolt triggered the wars between the Persians and the Greeks . Look to the related links below .
The Persian wars were between the Greeks of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Persians. The Persians wanted to stabilise their empire while the Greek cities were rebelling within it or supporting those rebellions from the outside. After 50 years of warfare, the Greeks outlasted the Persians and an agreement for Persia to recognise their independence was arranged in 449 BCE. The Peloponnesian war was between the empire established by Athens out of the cities which allied to repel the Persians, and a Peloponnesian League headed by Sparta which opposed Athens when it transferred its attentions to its Greek neighbours. It lasted 431-404 BCE, at the end of which Athens lost the empire it had created.
They enabled Athens to establish an empire from the Delian League which it formed to oppose the Persians. This empire became involved in the Peloponnesian War after peace was made by Persia and Athens used the Delian League to promote its own interests against othe Greek cities of the Peloponnesian League. Persia helped the Peloponnesian League to defeat Athens.
Persian War: a coalition of the southern Greek city-states versus an expeditionary force from Persia with its local Greek allies. Peloponnesian War: the Athenian league/empire versus a mainly Peloponnesian League led by Sparta.
They used Persian financial support to build a fleet to gain victory over the Athenian empire in the Peloponnesian War.
Athens lost the Peloponnesian War because it refused to agree to peace on reasonable term, and the Persians bankrolled the Peloponnesian League to form a navy strong enough to defeat the hitherto superior Athenian fleet.
The Persians. They eventually supported the Peloponnesian League by providing it with the funds to get and man a fleet to match the Athenian one.
Presumably an analyis of the Peloponnesian War. Who did it?