How did the Persian and Peloponnesian Wars affect the development and cooperation of the Greek poleis?

Answer 1

The Persian Wars lasted for fifty years, and brought the Persians to accept that the Greek city-states would be independent.

The legacy of the Persian War was that Athens, having led a league of Ionian-Greek city-states against Persia for the second half of the Persian Wars, converted this league of apparently freed cities into an empire of its own. Athens used this Empire to finance its own benefit, and back aggression against the Peloponnesian League of Dorian-Greek city-states led by Sparta. This led to the Peloponnesian War between the two groups, which Athens lost, and was stripped of it's empire.

Persia supported the Peloponnesian League during that war, and after that league defeated the Athenian league, and fighting still persisted between the Greek cities, took the opportunity to reclaim the Greek city-states in Asia Minor to its own empire.

Answer 2

The Persian wars brought a temporary cooperation among some Greek city states, interupting their usual wars between each other. The poleis continued as independent city-states, in various, changing alliances according to their self-interest.

The Peloponnesian War created a temporary alignment of two opposing blocs. After the war rhese blocs dissolved into different new, changing blocs according to self-interest at the time.

Answer 3

There was no unity in the Greek world. The idependent city-states formed alliances and changed them frequently as self-interest dictated or offered. There ware temporary alliances against the Persians, and of the Peloponnesians against the Athenian empire. Different alliances and enmities preced and followed them.

Answer 4

Greek success in the Persian War freed the Greek city-states generally, and the ones in Asia Minor specifically, from Persian rule. Athens however continued to control and profit from the anti-Persian alliance it headed in the latter stages of the Persian War.

Athens then used the resources of this empire to opress other Greek city-states, resulting in the Peloponnesian War, which it lost and so lost its empire. Greece then faced continued internal war.

With this war spilling over into the Persian Empire, Persia forced a peace on the self-weakened Greek city-states and reclaimed the cities in Asia Minor which had beed freed from its rule in the Persian War, in order to bring peace within its borders.

With the weakened state of the Greek cities in mainland Greece, the way was made clear for a emerging Macedonia to control the Greek cities and go on to capturing the Persian Empire.

Answer 5

The upshot was that the wars so weakened the Greeks that they became a target for Macedonia, which took over the Greek world, and used the combined power to take over the Persian Empire.