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and Cyprus were abandoned to the Persians, and the Athenians were compelled to cede their newly-won territories in the Aegean. Equally significantly, the insistence on autonomy put an end to a novel political experiment that had grown out of the war, the union of Argos and Corinth. In what the
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proved enduring, however, and numerous attempts would be made to establish one, with little more success than the original. By granting powers to Sparta that were sure to infuriate other states when used, the treaties sowed the seeds of their own demise, and a state of near-constant warfare
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characterized it, was the establishment of Sparta in a formalized position at the top of a Greek political system enforced by the Great King. Using their mandate to protect and enforce the peace, the Spartans proceeded to launch a number of campaigns against
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King Artaxerxes thinks it just that the cities in Asia should belong to him, as well as Clazomenae and Cyprus among the islands, and that the other Greek cities, both small and great, should be left
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of 378 to 371 BC) with the revived Athenian naval confederacy and continued, with intermittent attempts to restore the peace, for much of the next two decades. The idea of a
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The single greatest effect of the Peace was the return of firm Persian control over Ionia and parts of the Aegean. Driven back from the Aegean shores by the
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The most notable feature of the King's Peace is the Persian influence it reflects. The Persian decree that established the terms of the peace, as recorded by
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region. The Athenians, mindful of their disastrous defeat in 404 BC, when the Spartans had gained control of the Hellespont, agreed to negotiate, and
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the Treaty of Antalcidas in 387-6 B.C. had established a Persian suzerainty over Greece that persisted until the formation of the League of Corinth.
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were overlooked, as the Spartans, who were responsible for administering the peace, had no wish to see the principle of independence applied there.
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of 431 to 404 BC, and were now strong enough to dictate terms to Greece. They would maintain this position of strength until the time of
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in northeastern Greece, as violating the autonomy principle of the Great King's decree. On the way there, in 383 the Spartan commander
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in Arcadia, to disband into its constituent villages. The largest intervention was a campaign in 382 BC to break up the federalist
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had successfully placed a number of cities across the Aegean under Athenian control, and was acting in collaboration with
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and companions liberated Thebes in 379 by assassinating the Laconizing tyrants. After the Spartan campaign against
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during the 5th century, the Persians had been recovering their position since the later part of the
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To bring the Athenians to the negotiating table, Antalcidas then moved his fleet of 90 ships to the
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By 387 BC, the central front of the Corinthian War had shifted from the Greek mainland to the
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in 387 BC, put an end to the Corinthian War under the guarantee of the Achaemenid Empire.
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that they perceived as political threats. Near at hand, they forced the city of
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A second effect of this "most disgraceful event in Greek history", as
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The King's Peace was not successful in bringing peace to Greece.
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to switch his support from Athens and her allies to Sparta.
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The Peace of Antalcidas was guaranteed by Achaemenid ruler
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to negotiate the terms of the treaty with the king of
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Antalcidas traveled to Susa to negotiate the peace.
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Artaxerxes II
Xenophon
Hellenica
autonomous
peace treaty
Artaxerxes II
Corinthian War
ancient Greece
Antalcidas
Spartan
Susa
Achaemenid Persia
Common Peace
Thirty Years' Peace
First Peloponnesian War
Aegean
Athenian
Thrasybulus
Evagoras
Cyprus
Artaxerxes
Antalcidas
Susa
satrap
Tiribazus

Hellespont
trade routes
grain

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