HIST 2850 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Peloponnesian League, Brasidas, Peloponnesian War
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In the year 471, naxos wanted to leave the league. Athens and sparta divided the world up into 2 leagues. Could only join the delian league if you contributed triremes. The delian league protected all who were in it. Athens, being in the centre of trade for the league, became very rich. Athenians start to bully the other members of the league. Athenians refuse to allow them to leave. Athens decides to move the treasury at delos to athens itself. Used largely to rebuild the city, which had been sacked by xerxes. The sparta(cid:374)s (cid:271)e(cid:272)o(cid:373)e (cid:449)ear(cid:455) of athe(cid:374)s" i(cid:374)(cid:272)reasi(cid:374)g po(cid:449)er/(cid:449)ealth. This growth in power followed the same system as the minoan hegemony. Under the authority of themistocles, the athenians built walls from athens to piraeus. Themistocles denied the building of the walls to sparta until they were completed. Athenians had shifted the balance of power since the phalanx was how the spartans settled political disputes.
