It both strengthened and weakened them. They had banded together to oppose the Persian Empire, and Athens opportunistically converted this into and empire of its own when peace was made with Persia.

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So Athens had a strong bloc, but overstepped itself against the Peloponneian League led by Sparta and brought on a devastating 27-year war which wealened the Greek world and opened the way for Macedonian dominance.

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