What was the Delian Leagues alliance?

Answer 1

It was a coalition of Greek city-states led by the Athenian Pericles .
It was a league of 180 Greek city-states in Asia Minor and the Islands formed under the leadership of Athens to fight to keep independence from Persian rule. After the Persians agreed to leave them alone, Athens opportunistically turned them into an empire of its own, and lived high on the annual tax it levied, by force where necessary, from those city-states.

Answer 2

After the Persian invasion was turned back in 479 BCE, Athens organised a league of Greek cities freed from Persian rule. This kept Persia from retaking the Greek cities in Asia Minor and the Islands. The cities contributed money to maintain the forces to protect them, principally the Athenian war fleet.

After 30 years the Persian Empire agreed to leave the cities alone but Athens used its fleet to continue to extort the annual contributions, and spent the money on itself, turning the League into an empire of it's own.

Answer 3

The Delian League was an alliance of up to 200 Greek city-states located around the Aegean and Black Seas which combined under the leadership of Athens in 378 BCE to resist attempts by the Persian Empire to re-establish control over them after the Persians were defeated when they attempted to invade peninsular Greece.

This League fought several further battles with the Persian Empire over the next 30 years until the Persians gave up and left the Greek cities to their own wars against each other. Athens continued to enforce payments of the funds which were used to finance the anti-Persian forces after it was no longer necessary, collecting the money by force where necessary, and used the money for itself, effectively turning the League into an empire of its own.

The League progressively disintegrated and finally ceased to exist at the end of the Peloponnesian War in 404 BCE when Athens was defeated by the Spartan-led Peloponnesian League, and was stripped of this empire.

Answer 4

It was an alliance of Greek city-states mainly in Asia Minor and the Aegean islands formed after the Persian invasion was repelled, to liberate and protect the independence of those city-states from Persian control. When the Persian Empire agreed to peace 20 years later, Athens, which led the League, converted it into an empire of its own, and lived high on the proceeds of this empire - its Golden Age indeed.