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the spart killed the men of athens
the spart killed the men of athens
The Peloponnesion War.Took place in 431 B.C.
Athens was the maritime power and Sparta was the continental power. The war slogged on and off for over thirty years until Sparta finally gained superiority at sea, and a plague brought in form the Pontic grain ships killed possibly as many as one-third of the population of Athens, leaving it, almost literally, too weak to fight.
Athens/Plataea - Miltiades Persia - Datis and Artaphernes.
The generals on either side who changed during the course of the 27-yer war - scores of them.
Throughout the Peloponnesian War the city - states of Athens and Sparta were the two leaders.
The Peloponnesian War was caused by Athens slowly creating an empire under Pericles, an Athenian general. Sparta did not want only one city-state to be able to control all of Greece, so they decided to attack Athens, causing the Peloponnesian War.
Money from Persia to fund a war fleet to match the Athenian one.
In Sparta, the two kings were the war leaders, and the conduct of warlike operations was determined by them in conjunction with the council. In Athens there were 10 generals, one from each tribe, who were charged with the conduct of wars after the Assembly had determined to engage in war.
When the most intense part of the War was on he was a boy. He later became one of the leaders in Athens.