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After the invasion was driven back in 479 BCE Athens formed a defensive league of a couple of hundred cities which it led. It offerd to take cotributions of money from those cities which preferred this to providing expensive ships. Most paid, so Athens became rich and militarily strong on the proceeds. It kept this tribute flowing even after the Persian threat subsided, and lived high on the extorted proceeds.

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