War and Outcome

The defeat of the Persians, left the Greek world to come to be divided into two major camps. The Athenian Empire and Sparta. They both had two very different kinds of societies and neither could tolerate the other. Which this led into the outbreak of the Great Peloponnessian War in 431 BC. They both thought that they both had winning strategies. In second year of the war, a plague broke out in overly crowded Athens, killing more than a third of the people. The war weakened the major Greek states and ruined possibility of cooperation among them. This was also the second Peloponnesian war.