POLS 2490 Lecture 7: POLS 2490 LECTURE 7
7 Dec 2017
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It pitted the two powers together and included most city states as allies of athens or. It brought in the persians, macedonians, city states in italy, a world war. Brought unprecedented destruction to greece, divided the city states externally and internally, weakened the capacity of greece, led to the city stats inability to protect itself. The war was turning point for ancient greek history. The cause of the war is the cause of every war: fear, honour and state interests. Necessity dictated that they go to war. The spartans went to war because they feared athens and its imperial ambitions, became. Its usually some combinations of the 3 and in this case all 3 were engaged a threat to sparta and to their allies. Both sides knew the war was a bad idea but they were compelled to go to war, neither wanted to go to war. Two major powers are inevitably bound to clash.
