Athens imposed a trading ban on Megara, a member of the Peloponnesian League, designed to ruin it. Megara had the League demand its raising, and when Athens refused war broke out.
Athens and Sparta fought in the Peloponnesian War.
We call it today the Peloponnesian War. It was a 27-year war between the Athenian Empire and the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta.
The Peloponnesian War lasted 27 years (431-404 BC).
There was one Peloponnesian War, won by the Peloponnesian League over the athenian empire.
The Peloponnesian War was primarily caused by the power struggle between the Athenian Empire and the Peloponnesian League, led by Sparta. Tensions escalated due to Athens' aggressive expansion and its imperial policies, which threatened the autonomy of other Greek city-states. Additionally, economic rivalries, shifting alliances, and previous conflicts contributed to the hostilities that ultimately erupted into war in 431 BCE.
It began before the Peloponnesian War.
A contest between the Athenian empire and the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta, with Athenian expansionism facing Peloponnesian determination to give no further ground to it.
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.
Presumably an analyis of the Peloponnesian War. Who did it?
Peloponnesian War happened in -431.
History of the Peloponnesian War.
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The Peloponnesian war
When the Greek city-states of Asia Minor revolted against Persian rule in 499 BCE.
Athens won the first Peloponnesian War but Sparta won the second war
Led the Peloponnesian League.
some important events of the Peloponnesian War