2019 Year 12 IB Extended Essays

Athens that culminated in the Peloponnesian War which was galvanised by a Spartan fear of Athens’

aggressive foreign policy. Although both Polei were aware of the potential devastation war would

bring, neither was willing to swallow their pride and capitulate to what each considered

unreasonable demands. The result was that neither power regained their pre-war dominance, they

once held.

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