The cultural and scientific leaders of the Greek world were in thePersian-controlled Greek city states of Asia Minor. After thePersian War, Athens converted the 180 city-states it had ledagainst the Persian Empire into an empire of its own, and divertedtheir resources into its own advancement and glorification. Thissteered the Greek Golden Age into being a Golden Age for Athens.

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