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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.
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What caused a lack of trust between Sparta and Athens?
In about 460 BCE, after the Persian invasion had been repelled by the combined Greek forces, Sparta was facing a revolt by its serf population in Messene, and making heavy weather in putting it down. Athens offered to help and sent an expeditionary force to reinforce the Spartan forces. The Athenians were very adventurous in their operations, and showed up Spartan methods, which was based on trying to force a pitched battle with an elusive opposition which declined to make itself such a target. There is also a suggestion thet the Athenians showed some sympathy for the Messenians. The upshot was that Sparta invited the Athenians to go home, and the usual cooperative spirit between the two cities soured. After peace was finally made with the Persians in 449 BCE, Athens converted the anti-Persian Delian League which it led into an empire of its own, continuing to levy the war fund from the 200 cities of that league to use for its own benefit and maintaining a strong navy to enforce the annual collection of money. With this strength, Athens aggressively interfered in the affairs of the cities to which Sparta was allied in the Peloponnesian League, particularly Corinth. The Peloponnesian League members urged Sparta to help them stand up to Athens. A cocksure Athens persisted in interfering in other cities, and this came to a head when Athens banned Megara, a Peloponnesian League member, from trade with cities in its empire, which would destroy Megara. The Peloponnesian League demanded Sparta act, Sparta demanded Athens back off, Athens refused, war ensued.
Who won the Pelopanesis war?
Sparta beat Athens with the help of the Persians. The Spartans sold land in Asia Minor so that they could build a navy with that navy they crushed Athens' navy and Athens surrendered.
Why did the Spartans start the Peloponnesian War?
Fear - They feared that the rise of Athenian power would consume them - weighing the balance of power as it existed at the time, and what they saw as Athens continued rise in power - the window of opportunity to win a war against them was closing - in the end, they went to war because they feared the growing power of their neighbor to the north and their growing influence in the region.
Why was so difficult for Athens and Sparta to defeat each other?
Each had allies which augmented its power. Athens had an empire of about 180 city-states spread around the eastern Aegean Sea,. It had strong walls, which extended down to the sea, which enabled it to be resupplied during a siege. It also had a superior navy, which gave it the ability to threaten and raid opposing cities of the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta, and to ensure resupply of the city by sea from its empire. The Peloponnesian League had the strongest land forces, and was able to besiege Athens. By whittling don Athens' allies, it progressively reduced Athens' power and resupply, until finally after 27 years of fighting, the Athenian fleet was destroyed (Persia gave money to pay for a Peloponnesian fleet) and Athens was starved into submission.
Did Sparta or Athens girls stayed at Home to help their mothers?
Both.
Who received help from the Persians during the peloponnesian war?
The Persians gave money to the Peloponnesian alliance to raise a fleet which could match the one of the Athenian alliance.
The Peloponnesian War was won by?
Sparta and its allies, with the help of Persia.Sparta .
Did Sparta win the Peloponnesian War?
The Spartan alliance with the help of Persia defeated the Athenian alliance.
Why did the Athenians and the Spartans not get along after the Persians Wars?
Sparta's serf population revolted and Athens sent a force to help the Spartans put it down. Then the Athenian soldiers started to sympathise with the serfs , so the Spartans sent them home. Relations froze. When the Athenians made an empire out of the Delian League cities it had led against the persians, it became adventurous and interfered in the affairs of the cities of the Peloponnesian League which Sparta led. Sparta asked Athens to back off, an overconfident Athens persisted and war ensued.
How did the Greek world divide into Spartan and Athenian camps after defeating the Persians?
Allies Sparta and Athens had a falling out when the Spartan helots revolted and the forces Athens sent to help Sparta began to side with the revolutionaries, and Sparta sent them home. Athens turned the Delian league it had led against the Persian Empire into an empire of its own, and began to interfere in the cities of the Peloponnesian league led by Athens resulting in open war.
What major battles occured during the peloponnesian war?
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Who helped Sparta defeat Athens in the Peloponnesian Wars?
the macedonians of course... No, not the Macedonians. Sparta had many cities aligned in a league to defeat Athens, and some had formerly been Athenian allies who turned their coats because Athens treated them too harshly. Also, Sparta later formed an alliance with an old enemy, Persia, which continued to meddle in Greek affairs after their defeat by Sparta and Athens many years earlier. Persia gave Sparta money for a fleet. nobody helped them Yes, somebody helped them. They could not have done it without help, especially from the Persians and the Syracusans. Read the history.
How can the differences between Athens and Sparta lead to conflict?
They were long-time allies. This came apart in the 460s BCE when the Athenians sent an army contingent to Sparta to help them put down a revolt by the Spartan serfs. The Athenian soldiers became sympathetic with the serfs and the Spartans sent them home. Thereafter they regarded each other with suspicion. When the Persian War ended in 449 BCE Athens turned the 180 city-states it had led in the Delian League against the Persians Empire into an empire of its own and used this power to interfere in the other Greek cities, bringing on a clash with the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta, in the devastating 27-year Peloponnesian War.
Why in 431 BC did Sparta and other city-states join forces against Athens to fight the war?
After the Persian War, Athens turned the 180 city-states it had led against the Persian Empire into an empire of its own. It then tried to use this power to dominate other city-states. The final straw was when it tried to bankrupt its neighbour Megara, which belonged to the Dorian Peloponnesian League led by Sparta. Megara asked for help, Sparta demanded Athens back off, Athens continued and the devastating 27-year Peloponnesian War followed.
Why did the Spartans and Athenians unite during the Persian Wars?
Sparta and Athens were natural allies who provided support to each other - Sparta leading the Dorian bloc of independent city-states, Athens the Ionian bloc, with both interested in maintaining peace. So when a Persian expedition was sent to subdue Athens in 490 BCE after its interference in the Ionian Revolt against Persia, Athens naturally asked Sparta for support (however Athens had defeated the Persians at Marathon by the time the Spartans arrived). When Persia sent a full scale invasion in 480 BCE, the southern Greek city-states united to repel it under the leadership of Sparta with Athens providing the largest naval component. They remained friends and allies until 460 BCE, when Athens sent an army to help the Spartans put down a revolt of its serf population. During this campaign they fell out and avoided each other. After the Persians agreed to peace the Athenians turned the Delian League into an empire of its own, became over-adventurous and clashed openly with the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta, resulting in the 27-year Peloponnesian War which Athens lost.
What was the alliance like between Sparta and Athens during the Persian war?
They each provided major forces for a coalition of southern Greek city-states to resist the Persian invasion. After the invasion was repelled, Sparta left the follow-up action to Athens. They remained allies until Athens converted the anti-Persian alliance into an empire of its own after the Persians gave up trying to enforce peace in the western Mediterranean. Athens over-reached itself and this led to the Peloponnesian War between a Spartan alliance and Athens and its empire. In this war Persia gave assistance to Sparta to help it defeat Athens.
Who won the Peloponnesian War?
The Peloponnesian War was between Athens and its allies and Sparta and its allies, with Persia supporting Sparta financially later in the war, which lasted for 27 years from 431 to 404 BCE, devastating the Greek world from Sicily to Asia Minor in the process.In 404 BCE the Spartan fleet destroyed the Athenian one at Aigospotomai (Goat Rivers) in the Dardanelles, killing off Athens' last hope. After that Athens was invested, and after a seige surrendered.The real outcome was that Greece was left weakened and divided, allowing Persia to establish influence over Greece which it had failed after its military defeats earlier in the century.The Peloponnesian League.
