The Greek city-states had a diversion from their usual wars between themselves. However they managed to form an ongoing ant-Persian alliance led by Athens to continue that war for fifty years.

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This alliance was used by Athens to establish a dominant position in the Greek world, and it converted that alliance into an empire when peace was arranged with Persia. This empire was then opposed by a league of cities led by Sparta, with the resultant devastating Peloponnesian War 431-404 BCE.

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