Athens converted the Delian League into an empire of its own, and used the forces and money to attempt to dominate the Greek world.
Athens turned the anti-Persian Delian League into an empire of its own. Sparta led the Peloponnesian League.
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Athens.
Athens.
On one side, Athens. On the other, Sparta.
Segeral city states formed an alliance after the Persian wars to make it possible to combat the Persians.
The Persian Empire and an alliance of Greek city-states.
Sparta led the Peloponnesian League, Athens led the Delian League.
The Persian Empire and an alliance of Greek city-states led first by Sparta and then Athens.
It led the anti-Persian alliance of Greek city-states.
Athens had a powerful navy. This navy was part of the combined navy of the alliance of southern Greek city-states which defeated the Persian navy (which was composrd of Phoenician, Asian-Greek and Egyptian ships) at Salamis.
At Ephesus in 498 BCE the Persian army crushed a force of the Ionian cities augmented by contingents from Eretria and Athens.
It was between an alliance of Greek city-states and the Persian Empire. Today we call it the Persian War to differentiate it from the wars between the Greek city-states. It is often called the Greco-Persian War.
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