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Chapter 9 – The Greek World
Section 2 – Sparta and Athens Fight
Essential Questions: What were the causes and effects of the Peloponnesian War?
A. Athenian Power
1. Many city-states formed an __________________, or an agreement to work together.
2. They agreed to defend each other and to protect trade in the ________________ Sea.
3. Each city-state gave ____________ to the ___________________.
4. The money was kept on the island of _____________, historians called the alliance the
___________ League.
5. ______________ was the strongest member of the league.
6. They began to treat the other league members as ________________.
7. The refused to let members _____________ the league and ______________ more cities to
join it.
8. Without even _________________, the Athenians made the Delian League an Athenian
________________.
B. The Peloponnesian War
1. The Delian League was __________ the only ________________ in Greece.
2. Many cities in southern Greece, including ___________________, banded together as well.
3. This alliance was called the ______________________ __________________.
4. To stop Athen’s _________________, Sparta declared _____________, which began the
Peloponnesian War.
5. In 431 BC, the Spartan army marched north to _________________, surrounding the city and
waiting for the Athenians to come out and ___________________.
6. The _____________________ did not come out and fight.
7. Instead, the Spartans began to burn the ______________ in the fields around Athens hoping
Athens would run out of food and be forced to ___________________________.
8. The Athenians brought in ______________, instead, through the _________________.
9. For _______ years neither side could gain an advantage over the other. Eventually they
agreed to a ______________________.
10. Athens _______________ its empire, and the Spartans went ______________.
11. In 415 BC, Athens sent its army and navy to ______________ the island of ______________,
but the effort ________________.
12. The entire Athenian army was __________________ by Sicilian allies of Sparta and taken
____________________. The Athenian ____________was also destroyed.
13. Since Athens was weak, _____________ attacked ______________ again and the war
started up once more.
14. In 404 BC, the Athenians _______________, the Peloponnesian War was over, and Sparta
was in ________________.
C. Fighting Among City-States
1. For about ________ years, Sparta was the most _______________ city-state in Greece.
2. Other city-states in Greece ________________ this control which led to a period of
______________.
3. The ______________ went on for many years, Greece was _________________, and was left
open to ___________________ from the outside.