It not only enabled it to dominate the eastern Mediterranean Sea and see off the Persian threat, but it was also necessary to enforce collection of the annual war fund contributions of the 200 city-states after the Persian threat receded. The casualty inscriptions of the Athenian tribes show large annual death tolls from the many fights to force the Greek cities to pay up. It was this money which supported Athenian naval power and the aggrandisement of the city and its culture and lifestyle.
Athens always had a strong navy and they have benefitted their navy because of it's power.
Athens had a powerful navy.
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Athens had a strong navy, while Sparta had a better army
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.
Athens was a democracy and had more liberal (for that time) thinking and had good navy. Sparta was a oligarchy was more conservative and militaristic and had great army. In the war between them (Peloponnesian war), Sparta won.
Yes.
The advantage that Athens had during the Peloponnesian wars was that they had a bigger army. They also had a larger Navy.
A navy is not on land, so neither had the best navy.
Athens navy protected it from sea invasions as well as protecting there own ships that they used for trade. The navy also allowed Athens to settle colonies in other places.
they did not have one Sparta eventually built a navy in the latter phase of their war with Athens, but they handled it badly, and the superior seamanship of the Athenian navy resulted in the humiliating loss of several sea battles. The Spartan king Lysander conquered Athens by using the Spartan navy in a different way, with an amphibious attack on Athens.
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