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Athens abused its leadership of the Dalian League, formed to protect against the Persian Empire invasion. When Persia agreed to peace, Athens turned the 180-city league into an empire of its own, continuing to collect the war contributions by force and spending the money on itself - the Parthenon etc, keeping half its own citizens on the public payroll, and maintaining a navy to enforce the annual money collection.
It also used this power to interfere in other Geek cities outside its empire, eventually trying to bankrupt its neighbour Megara in a spiteful dispute. Megara was a member of the Sparta-led Peloponnesian League and called for support. An over-confident Athens refused to back off and the devastating Peloponnesian War ensued for 27 yeas, Athens losing and stripped of its empire, becoming a second rate power.
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∙ 12y agothey didn't like the Athens because they the other city state pay them money and give them lands for colonies.
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Why was the Delian league doomed to fail?
It gave Athens too much power, making the other city-states resent it.
Why did citystates fight each other?
To gain land for farming
Who did the Greeks fight in the Peloponnesian War?
Each other. Athens and Sparta, with their respective Greek allies, fought each other. The Persian Empire later sided with Sparta against Athens, but mostly it was Greek against Greek.
What is the goddess- protector of Athens?
Athena, although Athens also worshiped other Greek gods and goddesses.
What is Athens like in 2010?
Like every other county, only Greek
Greek city-states Athens and Sparta fought each other in the?
Peloponnesian War
Which greek city state controlled the delian league?
Yes , and Athens exploited her position to the detriment of the other Greek city-states which ultimately led to the Peloponnesian Wars .
Where is the setting in A Midsummer Night's Dream?
A town near Athens (greece)In theory, Athens, Greece. Theseus was indeed a king of Athens according to Greek legend and he did marry Hippolyta the queen of the Amazons. On the other hand, Peter Quince, Nick Bottom, Starveling and so on are English names, not Greek. Puck or Robin Goodfellow is a figure in English fable, not Greek. The Athens in question is therefore a kind of fictionalized English Athens
Where did Athens anf Sparta fight each other?
On various Greek Islands, also in the city of Athens itself, and the Peloponnese Island, which is where the Spartans came from.
Why did the other city-states in the delian league resent Athens?
Athens turned the anti-Persian league into an empire of its own, enforcing collection of the annual war funds by a fleet of warships. It then spent the money, not on security but on a high life for itself.
What was the role of ancient greek women?
Most important at Sparta compared to Athens and other cities.
Is the Goddess Athena named after the Greek place Athens?
In myth it was the other way around, where Athens was named for Athena the Greek goddess. There is very little archeological evidence otherwise as it was frequently done in ancient Greece to have a town named for a goddess, or other famed person.
