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The naval Battle of Salamis won a victory for the Greek allies, primarily Athens. It, in effect, stranded the Persian Army in Greece, forcing it to make a fighting retreat home, leading to its defeat at Plataea. After the war, Athens formed a naval defense league to prevent any further Persian incursions. Athens became he leading cultural center of its time, leading the world in architecture, sculpture, and theater. In time, Athens began to use the treasury of the league as its personal resource, and behaved as an imperial power, bringing it into conflict with its former ally, Sparta, and sparking the Peloponnesian War, which eventually led to Athens' defeat and the fall of democracy in Ancient Greece.

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