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pretty much everything I know about the Peloponnesian I learned from Two Cities was a wealthy fellow from the suburbs of Athens he served as a general in the Peloponnesian War and actually manage this I have the whole bloody Affair these history of the Peloponnesian War is no Memoir though and it's day it was the most thorough historical account written and in my humble opinion we haven't made many improvements since then a great historian he's unbiased or at least trying to be he's incredibly thorough he's not interested in the Supernatural only the rational and best of all he was there so much as I would like to tell you all about the Peloponnesian War the honor belongs to my good friend facilities the Peloponnesian War was a chaotic messy conflict between Athens and Sparta that dragged on for nearly 30 years what's the beginning of the war Athens controlled a vast mettaton and Power by the end of the world Athens had been stripped of its Empire and did even control itself so what happens to bring the mighty Athenian Empire low will the causes of the Peloponnesian War stretch back for seconds after the Persian navy was destroyed at the Battle of Nikolai the Athenians founded the Delian League to punish the Persians by taking the colonies Aegean and adding them to the Athenian Empire with no Navy to defend them the Persians was soundly defeated and within 30 years the Athenians control. Mass Maritime Empire continued most of the islands in the Aegean and much of the coast of Asia Minor meanwhile back at home as Athens would ever should I add more powerful the Spartans with feeling increasingly nervous about Athens Imperial Ambitions as I wrote in my history the growth what power of Athens and the alarm which this inspired in the locker diamonds Spartans made War inevitable Espada had its own the Peloponnesian League which included most of the city-states of Mainland Greece and they did not appreciate the Athenians trying to poach them member states Delian League in 465 BCE Sparta slave class the helots attempted to throw off the spot and oppressors every Greek please State sent soldiers to help put down the Revolt the Athenian sent a large contingent of over 5,000 soldiers but the Spartans would not allow them into country very much so loud Force intended to take advantage of the chaos not to help with it this was but the first of many insult each side turn off at each other the next major insult came in for 49 when two members of the Peloponnesian League Megara and Corinth started fighting eager to gain a stronghold on the mainland Athens formed an alliance with mega. And then to the fighting the result was a 15-year long struggle between Athenian on Spartans which some have called the first Peloponnesian War this battle only concluded in 4:45 DC with the signing of the thirty years the 30 is peace was basically in agreement between the Spartans and the Athenians not to mess with one another as respected and piles that the what's the best piece proved too much for the Athenians to live by for the next 15 years Athens started acting more and more like a bullet they Crush revolting colonies beso to dissent among spot as allies they Vibe with their neighbor corid for control of the islands of the Aegean and even who is economic sanctions on their former allies the McGarry ins  until in 431 the rest of the world could take it no longer Evans had made enemies of the Spartans the Peloponnesian League the king of Macedon the Emperor of Persia and even their own Ally everyone was so mad at Athens that a conflict was inevitable but the Athenians were prepared for this fight their leader Pericles I've been certain the 30 years peace would not live up to its name so as soon as the Spartans had left the land surrounding Athens they had started building a long pause connecting the city of Athens to its Port the Padres in this way Patty said Athens could behave like an island it did not matter that the Spartan Army was invincible Evans never had to meet spot on land it did not matter spotted better the field stole that flocks Athens had an entire Empire to import food from as long as the Athenian Navy during Supreme it could keep the city Supply even against the longest see that Navy allowed the Athenians and Spartans Army is only useful in a battle it spends most of its time moving from point A to point B this might take months as a volt that's amazing Spartan Army was really only useful for a few days out of the month by contrast with the ship's the relatively small Athena Tommy could show up anywhere at anytime they could disembark do the damage and feedback to see before the enemies could muster any resistance the speed and mobility of the Athenian Navy was especially dangerous to Sparta since their slaves the helots were always on the brink of revolt the Spartans had to keep much of the army at home at all times less the Athenians sail around them and stir up a revolt and their Homeland so despite being surrounded by enemies it seemed the Athenians were in an excellent position they could hold the Empire Pericles wand so long as they good night try to expand upon it yet there were things that Pericles did not account for the first and foremost of these was that when you shove thousand what people within City walls for months with no room and only primitive forms of Sanitation people tends to Die the walls protective the Athenians turn the Spartans but the tight quarters made them prone to disease within the first year of the world a plague swept through the city of Athens killing 30000 of the Indians it was a dreadful Affair not the least because the plague took Pericles the Visionary who turned Athens into an Empire without the leader of the democratic Athenians found it impossible to prosecute the war effectively they had no single mind no single going to unite them instead Athenian strategy vacillated from aggressive to defensive as different demagogues Rose to Paula and Fell From Grace hold on to cities I'm not sure if you was know what a demagogue is really kids these days demagogue is a leader who follows the people instead of leading them he tells them what they want to hear and simply tries to keep them happy so they're good real acted really yeah  we call those politicians what a horrible well do you must live in well anyway apparently it wasn't like that he talks the people he reasoned with them he encourage them to reach their full potential the demagogues just rode the wind up whatever the mobdro listen to the worst of these demagogues was alcibiades alcibiades was everything the Athenians were looking for he was rich he was sexy he was even relatively clever having studied under Socrates I also buy these could work up a crowd like a pro characteristics made him trust weather alcibiades and courage the Athenians to abandon Pericles excellent plan to not expand the empire instead alcibiades suggested and ambitious campaign to Sicily which was struggling to fight off an invasion from Syracuse he's led the expedition himself it when the Athenians we called him he defected to the Spartans and betrayed all of Athens plans this would not be his last defection alcibiades switched teams several times in the course of the wall from the Spartans to the Athenians and then back again he even worked for Persia for a while the Persians were all too eager to help Greeks kill other Greeks and the worldly alcibiades talk to doesn't intermediary eventually his dupes lost a fondness for him and killed alcibiades for his treachery bodies was but one of a long list of ambitious men who sought to lead Athens any one of these leaders plans might have worked put the constantly shifting Athenian War policy doomed every effort without a firm hand to guide them the Athenian populous my blunder after blunder they switch commanders on a dime yet held to disastrous strategies year after year when the first expedition to Sicily failed they sent another and then another until nearly the entire Athenian fleet has been destroyed and most of the Athenian Navy had been sold into slavery despite these guitar the Athenians struggled on for another decade they raised new Ami's and build new ships get that continued Naval Supremacy was mostly do The Genius of the Commander's unfortunately in a fit of a rashes in 406 BC the Athenians executed their greatest Naval commanders after the battle of Ogden oosa though the battle was a great Victory the generals had retreated to save the fleet from a storm instead of meaning behind to collect stranded soldiers and finish off the spot in Fleet and for this they were sentenced to death with no decent Lita's left Athenians blundered hopelessly in 405 they see that last fleet was destroyed but I spotted for sailing in Persian ships and the Athens surrendered tore down the walls in Athens disbanded its democracy and set up an oligarchy trance this group killed off many of the most prominent men of Athens did spot his victory was short-lived within a year the Athenians haddock what tyrants and we established the Democracy of the damage had been done the two greatest powers of Greece had weakened one another to such an extent neither would ever fully recover over the following decades Athens and Sparta I had to bend knee first of the fellow Greeks defeat news and then to invading macedonians  to fix the city's that was that was awesome and quite thorough summarize the Peloponnesian War was fought between Athens and Sparta both of these states with a heads of large leagues of Allied cities can you control the sea with a powerful navy Sparta's Peloponnesian League controlled the mainland of Greece with a powerful Army Athens is steady Rising or and wealth caused anger among the Spartans and even among its own allies when war finally broke out the Athenian leader Pericles suggested that Athens behave like an island they should not try to meet the Spartans in open battle but should stay inside the city and I'm forcing result of these Close Quarters was a plague killed off much of the Athenian population including Pericles after losing Pericles to the plague did he needs made a series of grave strategic errors including a drone on expedition to Sicily and the condemnation of some of their greatest leaders to death these mistakes and Athens General inability to stick to a course action without a central leader to guide them ended up costing the Athenians their empire

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