HISTORY
ANCIENT GREECE
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Question
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Athens suffered after losing the tribute money it received from the Delian League.
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The Spartans amassed a great naval fleet with the assistance of the Persians.
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The Spartans tore down the long walls that the Athenians had built for protection.
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Athens failed in its attempt to invade Sicily and lost most of its military force.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Under the Spartan general Lysander, the war raged for another decade. By in 405 B.C. Lysander decimated the Athenian fleet in battle and then held Athens under siege, forcing it to surrender to Sparta in 404 B.C.
Detailed explanation-2: -Athens was forced to surrender, and Sparta won the Peloponnesian War in 404 BC. Spartans terms were lenient. First, the democracy was replaced by on oligarchy of thirty Athenians, friendly to Sparta. The Delian League was shut down, and Athens was reduced to a limit of ten triremes.
Detailed explanation-3: -The reasons for this war are sometimes traced back as far as the democratic reforms of Cleisthenes, which Sparta always opposed. However, the more immediate reason for the war was Athenian control of the Delian League, the vast naval alliance that allowed it to dominate the Mediterranean Sea.