What was a result of the Persian War of the 5th century b.c.?

Answer 1

Athens converted the anti-Persian league into an empire of its own at the end of the war.

This created two powerful blocs in the Greek world - the Athenian Empire and the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta. They clashed in the devastating 27-year Peloponnesian War 431-404 BCE.

Answer 2

The Persian wars were two attacks on Greece in the early fifth century B.C.E. to punish Eretria and Athens, two states on the Greek mainland that had given assistance to the Ionian rebels. Eretria's survivors marched off to permanent exile in southwest Iran. The Athenians might have suffered a similar fate if not for the battle of Thermopylae when three hundreds Spartans gave their lives to buy time for the people of Athens to escape.

However, after seizing and sacking Athens, the Persians allowed their navy to be lured into the narrow straits of nearby Salamis where they lost their advantage in numbers and suffered a devastating defeat. The Persian land army was routed at Plataea and the immediate threat to Greece receded.

In 477 (B.C.E.) the Delian League was formed as a voluntary alliance of Greek states eager to prosecute the war against Persia. In less than 20 years, the League swept the Persians from the waters and freed all Greek communities except those in distant Cyprus.

Answer 3

Persia temporarily gave up trying to impose peace on the Greek city-states and left them to go on fighting each other. Athens then turned the anti-Persian confederation of Greek cities into an empire of its own and acted aggressively to the other Greek cities, precipitating the Peloponnesian War with Sparta and its allies. This 27-year war devastated Greece and Athens lost its empire, but the Greek cities continued to fight each other in shifting alliances into the 4th Century. Persia re-entered the scene, took back the territory it had lost, and tried to impose the 'King's Peace' on the warring cities to stop wars spilling over into its empire. The incessant warfare so weakened the Greek cities that Macedonia was able to gain dominance over them, and then turned on the Persian Empire and took it over.

Answer 4

After the Persians made peace, Athens converted the anti-Persian Delian League of 180 Greek city-states into an empire of its own and lived high on the hog with the annual tribute it extorted from these cities. Becoming over-convent Athens interfered in the affairs of the Sparta-led Peloponnesian League, resulting in a 27-year war which devastated the Greek world, with Athens defeated and stripped of its empire. Continuing fighting between the Greek city-states opened the way for Macedonia to dominate the Greeks, and use them to help it take over the Persian Empire.

Answer 5

The Persians withdrew from the Greek world, and the Greek city-states went back to fighting each other with increasing ferocity, culminating in the devastating 27-year Peloponnesian War.

Answer 6

After repelling the Persian distraction, the Greek city-states went back with renewed zeal to fighting each other, resulting in the destructive 27-year Peloponnesian War.