It allowed Athens to convert the anti-Persian alliance which it headed against the Persian Empire, after peace was arranged, into an empire of its own, which created a standoff withe the Peloponnesian League headed by Sparta.
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This standoff culminated in the destructive 27-year Peloponnesian War between the two blocs.