CIVILIZATION
GREEK
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Question
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Sparta
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Chandler
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Athens
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Greece
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the 6th and 5th centuries BCE, Persia invaded Greek territories and then tried to invade the main Greek city-states. These Greco-Persian wars had major impacts on the Greek city-states by shifting balances of power and letting Athens rise to become the most powerful of the Greek cities.
Detailed explanation-2: -How did Athens become a powerful empire after the Persian Wars? After the Persian War was over, and Sparta and Athens had defeated Persia, they emerged as heroes and powerful city-states.
Detailed explanation-3: -They strengthened the power and self-confidence of Athens in the first self-preservation exercise after the era of the tyrannical rulers. The city could, based on its military success in these wars, attain after 477 B.C. a political and economic supremacy for a while among the Greeks.