When the Persians agreed to peace after fifty years of warfare, Athens turned the anti-Persian league of Greek city-states into an empire. Overconfident of its strength, Athens became embroiled in the devastating Peloponnesian War with the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta, lost its empire and so weakened the Greek world that Macedonia was able to dominate Greece, and then take over the Persian Empire.

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