Athens formed the Delian League with other city states
including Sparta
ANSWER There had been three major leagues formed by Greeks city states: The Peloponnesian League under Sparta's hegemony, formed about the mid of the VI century BC to contrast the Athens's power. The first Delian-Attica league under Athens's hegemony, formed in 478-477 BC during the last phase of the Persian Wars. The second Delian-Attica League under Athens's hegemony, formed in 377 BC in opposition to the military alliance between Sparta and the Persian Empire.
After Sparta successfully led the repulse of the Persian invasion, it proposed that the Greek cities inside the Persian Empire be evacuated to mainland Greece to end the conflict. Opportunistic Athens countered by forming a league of these cities to continue war. Sparta, facing a serf revolt at home left them to it.
After the Persian War, Athens converted the anti-Persian Delian League which it led into an empire of its own. Using this power, it became aggressive against some of the other independent city-states, culminating in its attempt to bankrupt its neighbour Megara, a member of the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta. Sparta appealed to Athens to back off, Athens refused and war ensued.
Peloponnesian War"The Spartans voted that the treaty had been broken, and that war must be declared, not so much because they were persuaded by the arguments of the allies, as because they feared the growth of the power of the Athenians, seeing most of Hellas already subject to them" Book One, Chapter 88 Landmark Thucydides .Sparta was afraid of the growing power of their rival city-state, Athens
The Athenian-led Delian League was set up to oppose Persia and destroy Persian influence in its province of Asia Minor. It was natural that Persia should take an obvious opportunity to destroy this League by providing the money to the Spartan alliance to raise a fleet which could match the Athenian fleet, and to provide the money which allowed them to double the pay of rowers to attract the best ones.
Yes, but Sparta was not included in the Delian League - it was a member of the Peloponnesian League.
Athens was part of the Delian League and Sparta was part of the Peloponnesian League. -Ava :)
Sparta refused to join the Delian League because they refused to give tokens.
Sparta led the Peloponnesian League . Athens led the Delian League .
Athens
that Athens gradually took most of the power and became the head of the delian league which is why Sparta broke off
peloponnesian league led by Sparta fought the delian league led by Athens. the result was a peloponnesian league victory and the delian league was dismantled
The power of the Athenian led Delian league and to curb the power of Argos and Corinth. "Sparta formed its Pelopnnesian League, motivated at least partly by Athen's use of Delian League funds to rebuild its Acropolis"
Sparta led the Peloponnesian League, Athens led the Delian League.
No, they were defeated by Sparta and it's allies. The Delian League was formed to defend against Persia, and after peace was made with the Persian Empire, it was turned by Athens into an empire of its own. Athens used its resources of the old League to war against the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta.
Athens and Sparta .
First it was a coalition of the southern Greek city-states led by Sparta to defeat the Persian invasion. After this there was the Delian League led by Athens. During the Peloponnesian war, it was the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta versus the Athenian empire, which the Delian League had morphed into.