WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Delian League was composed of 330 city-states at its peak. Athens was very much the leader and dominant polis.

Detailed explanation-2: -Athens was its undisputed leader and gradually used the alliance as a springboard for its own imperial ambitions. By 454, when the League’s treasury was transferred to Athens and used to fund monuments of imperial splendor such as the Parthenon, it had become an empire in all but name.

Detailed explanation-3: -The spectacular defeat of the Persians at Salamis in 480 led to the formation of a more permanent alliance. Three years later negotiations, led by Aristides of Athens, began on the Greek island of Delos. The result was the Delian League, a sort of ancient equivalent to NATO.

Detailed explanation-4: -The number of city-states in the Delian League number anywhere from 150 to 330 members including Athens, Delos, Naxos, Eretria, Miletus, and Byzantium, amongst others. The Peloponnesian League, whose members included an unknown member, counted Sparta, Corinth, Elis, Megara, and Thebes as allied together.

Detailed explanation-5: -The revolt of Thasos was primarily a land dispute between Athens and Thasos or it looked as such from the outside. After a dispute with Athens over the control of the gold mines on the adjacent mainland of Thrace, Thasos decided to secede from the Delian League altogether.