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How Athens took over the leadership from Sparta after the Persian Wars
Title: How Athens took over the leadership from Sparta after the Persian Wars
Category: History
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How Athens took over the leadership from Sparta after the Persian Wars
During the period of Greek history from the last years of the Persian Wars till the beginning of the First Peloponnesian War, the primacy of Sparta declined whileAthens was gaining increased influence in Greece. The Athenian, Thucydides (460-400 BC), one among few contemporary historians, left behind the most creditable records about this period. Although he did not give enough documentation
for many events he described, his Histories remained the main resource of the facts from that …showed first 75 words of 1521 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1521 total…part with her authority willingly but was forced into it by Athens’ accession and other circumstances which prevented Sparta’s further expansion for some time.
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