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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.
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∙ 12y ago1. 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.
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∙ 12y agoa plague broke out in Athens and the Spartans cut off the Athenians food source
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∙ 9y agoThere 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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Who had a army centered life Athens or Sparta?
Sparta full-time. Athens part-time.
Is it in Sparta or in Athens that only men could be citizens of a polis?
in Sparta were only free men citizens?
Metics belonged who Athens or Sparta?
SPARTA!
How was Athens not violent as Sparta was?
athens wanted peace while sparta wanted war
In what modern country are Athens and Sparta located?
Athens and Sparta are both located in Greece.
What enemies did Athens and Sparta have?
Athens was enemies with Sparta and Sparta was enemies with Athens
What occurred first crusades rennisance fall of roman empire or wars between Athens and Sparta?
The war (The Peloponnesian War) between Athens and Sparta was , chronologically , first .
Who had a army centered life Athens or Sparta?
Sparta full-time. Athens part-time.
Did the Athens or Sparta have a democracy?
Sparta because they did not have as much freedom as Athens.
What city is farther north Athens or Sparta?
Athena
Did Sparta or Athens have a democracy?
Athens had a democracy; Sparta, an oligarchy.
What was different about Sparta and Athens?
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.
How were the government of Sparta and Athens different?
Athens's finnancial differences from Sparta were that Sparta had alot more gold and Athens had alot more credit.
Was Xerxes for Athens or Sparta?
Sparta
Who had an assembly Athens or Sparta?
sparta
Wars of the Sparta and Athens?
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 and how it end?
what war did athens and sparta fight
