Peloponnesian League

(noun)

An alliance formed around Sparta in the Peloponnesus, from the 6th to 4th centuries BCE.

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  • Introduction to the Peloponnesian War

    • The Peloponnesian War provided a dramatic end to the 5th century BCE, shattering religious and cultural taboos, devastating vast swathes of countryside, and destroying whole cities.
    • The Peloponnesian War (431-404 BCE) was fought between Athens and its empire, known as the Delian League, and the Peloponnesian League, led by Sparta.
    • The Battle of Mantinea was the largest land battle fought within Greece during the Peloponnesian War.
    • The Argive democratic alliance was broken up, and most members were reincorporated into Sparta’s Peloponnesian League, reestablishing Spartan hegemony throughout the region.
    • Members of the Peloponnesian League continued to send reinforcements to Syracuse in hopes of driving off the Athenians, but instead, Athens sent another 100 ships and 5,000 troops to Sicily.

  • Effects of the Persian Wars

    • This set the stage for Sparta’s eventual withdrawal from the Delian League.
    • Once Sparta withdrew from the Delian League after the Persian Wars, it reformed the Peloponnesian League, which had originally been formed in the 6th century and provided the blueprint for what was now the Delian League.
    • A series of rebellions occurred between Athens and the smaller city-states that were members of the League.
    • For example, Naxos was the first member of the League to attempt to secede, in approximately 471 BCE.
    • The Delian League was the basis for the Athenian Empire, shown here on the brink of the Peloponnesian War (c. 431 BCE).

  • The Rise of the Macedon

    • In the aftermath of the Peloponnesian War, Sparta rose as a hegemonic power in classical Greece.
    • During that conflict, Philip conquered Potidaea, but ceded it to the Chalkidian League of Olynthus, with which he was allied.
    • In 337 BCE, Philip created and led the League of Corinth.
    • Members of the league agreed not to engage in conflict with one another unless their aim was to suppress revolution.
    • Another stated aim of the league was to invade the Persian Empire.

  • Athens

    • These victories enabled Athens to bring most of the Aegean, and many other parts of Greece, together in the Delian League, creating an Athenian-dominated alliance from which Sparta and its allies withdrew.
    • Athens moved to abandon the pretense of parity among its allies, and relocated the Delian League treasury from Delos to Athens, where it funded the building of the Athenian Acropolis, put half its population on the public payroll, and maintained the dominant naval power in the Greek world.
    • Originally intended as an association of Greek city-states to continue the fight against the Persians, the Delian League soon turned into a vehicle for Athens's own imperial ambitions and empire-building.
    • The resulting tensions brought about the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BCE), in which Athens was defeated by its rival, Sparta.

  • The League of Nations

  • Effects of the Peloponnesian War

    • The Peloponnesian War ended in victory for Sparta and its allies, and led directly to the rising naval power of Sparta.
    • Democracy in Athens was briefly overthrown in 411 BCE as a result of its poor handling of the Peloponnesian War.
    • As a result of the Peloponnesian War, Sparta, which had primarily been a continental culture, became a naval power.
    • After the end of the Peloponnesian War, Lysander established many pro-Spartan governments throughout the Aegean.
    • Understand the effects of the Peloponnesian War on the Greek city-states

  • World War I and the League of Nations

    • The League of Nations was created as an international organization after WWI.
    • Sanctions could hurt League members, so they were reluctant to comply with them.
    • In the 1930s, Germany withdrew from the League, as did Japan, Italy, Spain, and others.
    • The countries on the map represent those that have been involved with the League of Nations.
    • Explain the historical rise and fall of the League of Nations after World War I

  • The League of Nations

    • The league was the brainchild of U.S.
    • The Paris Peace Conference approved the proposal to create the League of Nations in January 1919, and the league was established by Part I of the Treaty of Versailles.
    • Representation at the league was often a problem.
    • Harding, continued American opposition to the League of Nations.
    • The league cannot be labeled a failure, however, as it laid the groundwork for the United Nations, which replaced the League of Nations after World War II and inherited a number of agencies and organizations founded by the league.

  • Introduction to Ancient Greece

    • While Greek daily life and loyalty was centered on one's polis, the Greeks did create leagues, which vied for control of the peninsula, and were able to unite together against a common threat (such as the Persians).
    • With the defeat of the Persian threat, Athens became the most powerful polis until the start of the Peloponnesian War in 431 BCE.

  • Immigration Restriction League

    • The Immigration Restriction League called for restrictions on immigration of people from certain parts of the world.
    • The League was founded in Boston and had branches in New York, Chicago and San Francisco.
    • The influence of the Immigration Restriction League declined but it remained active for nearly twenty years.
    • The League disbanded after the death of its president, Prescott F.
    • Portrait of George Edmunds, a founding member of the Immigration Restriction League