Describe the difference between the Peloponnesian and Persian Wars?

Answer 1

Loss of the Persian War stopped Persian expansion into the Greek world. The Peloponnesian War so weakened the Greek world that it became an easy target for takeover by Macedonia, which was then able to harness the combined Macedonian-Greek forces to takeover the Persian Empire.

Answer 2

The Persian Wars 499-449 BBBBBC ended when Persia agred to stay away from the Greek city-states on which it had been attempting to impose peace, and left them to return to their habitual fighting amongst each other.

This fighting culminated in the disastrous 27-year Peloponnesian War between Athens and the empire it had gained from the Persian peace, and the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta. Athens lost, was stripped of it's empire and lapsed to becoming a second rate power.

With Sparta the dominant power, inter-city warfare continued with changing alliances, until Thebes defeated Sparta. The Persian's imposed thing's Peace to stop Greek fighting spilling over into its empire, and all this disruption paved the way for Macedonia to dominate Greece, and use the combined power to conquer the Persian Empire.

Answer 3

The Persian War failed in its aim by the Persian Empire to control the Greek inter-city warfare which was spilling over and disrupting peace in the Persian Empire. When Persia gave up and left the Greeks to their internal wars,

Athens converted the anti-Persian alliance of cities into an Empire of its own. This Athenian empire interfered in the internal affairs of the Greek Peloponnesian League cities, and the 27-year Peloponnesian War broke out, lasting 27 years at terrible cost to the Greek world. Their resulting weakness and ongoing later wars made it possible for Macedonia to gain control of the Greek cities.

Macedonia then used this combined power to take over the Persian Empire, under Alexander the great, and on his death this split into several Hellenistic kingdoms ruled by his generals. They brought a veneer of Greek civilisation to the upper classes of the Middle East, but the main population continued it usual customs. Much later the rise of the Arab invaders changed all this.

Answer 4

Persian War - between the Persian Empire and a\varying alliances of Greek city-states.

Peloponnesian War - between Athens and its empire and the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta.