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Rising tensions between the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta and the Athenian Empire which was pushing them too far in Athens' over-aggresive policies.
Athens, having turned the alliance against the Persian Empire into an empire of its own, interfered in the other cities to extend its influence. The Peloponnesian League led by Sparta, some of whose members were targeted by Athens, gave an ultimatum for this interference to cease. Athens persisted and war ensued.
The fear of the growing strength of Athens.
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Did Spartans or Athens win the war?
The Spartans won the Peloponnesian war, the only war between the Athenians and the Spartans.
In 431 B.C. Sparta and other city-states joined forces against Athens to fight this war?
We today call it the Peloponnesian War as it was mainly city-states from the Peloponnesian peninsula which opposed Athens and its empire.
How did Athens win the peloponnesian war?
It lost.
Did Sparta lose the thucydian war?
If you are talking about what we usually call the Peloponnesian War 431 to 404 BCE, Sparta led the Peloponnesian League which defeated the Athenian Empire in that war.
Sparta's declaration of war against Athens began which war?
Sparta's declaration of war against Athens began the Peloponnesian war. Sparta accused Athens of breaking their peace and the war began in 431 BCE.
What fundamentals caused 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.
What caused the peloponnesion war?
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.
What caused the peloponnesian war to begin?
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.
What was the peloponnesian war analysis?
Presumably an analyis of the Peloponnesian War. Who did it?
When did Peloponnesian War happen?
Peloponnesian War happened in -431.
What is the name of the Thucydides book about Peloponnesian War?
History of the Peloponnesian War.
Conflict between athens and sparta resulted in the?
. . . the Peloponnesian War .
What is the war between the Delian League and the Peloponnesian League called?
The Peloponnesian war
In the peloponnesian war Sparta?
Led the Peloponnesian League.
Who lost the peloponnesian war?
Athens won the first Peloponnesian War but Sparta won the second war
Major events that occurred in the peloponnesian war?
some important events of the Peloponnesian War
What two cities fought in peloponnesian war?
Athens and Sparta fought in the Peloponnesian War.
