After the Persians failed to bring peace to the eastern Mediterranean in the Persian Wars, Persia withdrew to leave the Greek cities to get back to their usual fighting between each other.
Athens then turned the anti-Persian league it led into an empire of its own, and over-reached itself, bringing on a war with the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta. This 27-year war severely damaged the city-states of Greece. In the process Sparta had to turn to Persia for support, and then defeated Athens, stripping it of its empire.
The weakened cities continued fighting amongst each other in varying alliances, and Thebes replaced Sparta as the leading power. All this fighting paved the way for the dominance of Macedonia.
1. Spartans and Athens helped each other through the Persian war and defeated them but when the time of building an empire came for the Athens to build for both types of people, Spartans got curious. They could be betraying them…. Anyways, they found out that Athens was building an empire on their own. After this happened, they never trusted each other, and then there was a Peloponnesian war.
a plague broke out in Athens and the Spartans cut off the Athenians food source
There wer many occasions where Sparta defeated other cities, over several hundred years. Specify which defeat you are talking about and you can get an answer.
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Sparta full-time. Athens part-time.
in Sparta were only free men citizens?
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athens wanted peace while sparta wanted war
Athens and Sparta are both located in Greece.
Athens was enemies with Sparta and Sparta was enemies with Athens
The war (The Peloponnesian War) between Athens and Sparta was , chronologically , first .
Sparta full-time. Athens part-time.
Sparta because they did not have as much freedom as Athens.
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Athens had a democracy; Sparta, an oligarchy.
they had different forms of government, Sparta had oligarchy while Athens had democracy. in Athens, you became a man when you turned 18, in Sparta you had to be 30. for money Athens had drachmas and Sparta had obols.
Athens's finnancial differences from Sparta were that Sparta had alot more gold and Athens had alot more credit.
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the only war between Athens & Sparta is the pelioponnesion war where Sparta fought Athens because they thought they were too powerful. in the end Athens surrendered and Sparta then became the most powerful.
what war did athens and sparta fight