Ancient Greece: The Effects Of War After The Persian War

Have you ever heard of Ancient Greece? If not, you wouldn’t know that they had city-states, and they did not like each other. They had many wars with other empires, but mainly the one with themselves. The effects of war are sometimes very dangerous. In Ancient Greece, it got pretty serious. The effects of their wars were, after the Persian war they had defeated a strong enemy, the civil war made Athens way weaker than when they started, and after their own civil war, they left themselves vulnerable for Phillip II to invade and take them down without a problem, All very bad problems, but also very interesting. The first reason that the effects of war can be serious is the Persian wars, Persia had the largest empire in all the land by a landslide. The Persians had soldiers in the millions and Greece had about 100,000 in total. Greece used great strategy against the Persians, not just to prolong the war, but win it all. The Persians had much more people than just their million soldiers. The Persians had to be their greatest enemy and they defeated them. According to the Encyclopedia by Britannica, it says that Persia had over a million soldiers …show more content…
In the Peloponneisian War reading from Mark Cartwright, when the war itself was over, they had already lost so many soldiers that they would need more, but the biggest effect that the war had been that in the end, Sparta made Athens take down their most precious defence, their long wall. This made their whole city-state weak, and shortly after, Sparta tried to invade Thebes but lost a crucial battle. They kept the fighting when they could have been getting new soldiers. After awhile, Athens caught a plauge, which was guessed to be ebola. After that happened they called a truce on the war, and they agreed to Sparta’s terms. Then, eventually they let another enemy come swooping in and take out their empire for