The Persian Wars lasted for fifty years, and brought the Persiansto accept that the Greek city-states would be independent.

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The legacy of the Persian War was that Athens, having led a leagueof Ionian-Greek city-states against Persia for the second half ofthe Persian Wars, converted this league of apparently freed citiesinto an empire of its own. Athens used this Empire to finance itsown benefit, and back aggression against the Peloponnesian Leagueof Dorian-Greek city-states led by Sparta. This led to thePeloponnesian War between the two groups, which Athens lost, andwas stripped of it’s empire.

Persia supported the Peloponnesian League during that war, andafter that league defeated the Athenian league, and fighting stillpersisted between the Greek cities, took the opportunity to reclaimthe Greek city-states in Asia Minor to its own empire.

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