Df unit 3 Greek and history.
The Delian league was successful in providing safety to the league's member city-states. The Delian League was a Greek city-state coalition formed with the goal of freeing Greece from Persian dominion and protecting the Aegean islands from any Persian attack. Under the Delian League's dominance in Athens, the Greeks had success after accomplishment against the Persians in the 470s and 460s, and the Persian Empire was ejected from the Greek world (Butler, 2007). In general, the Delian League was a success in terms of military, financial, and Athenian Empire building. (Nwadiugwu, 2016). The Delian
League was a superpower in ancient Greece because it provided all of them. Small city-states that couldn't build or acquire ships, or who didn't have enough men for an army, could rely on the Delian league to provide all of these things in exchange for "taxes" or "membership fees." All of this, however, came at a cost. The Delian
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Athens transferred the bank to Athens in order to gain access to the Delian league's monetary resources. Athens began to use the money from the Delian League to improve itself and construct temples.
The Delian league did not succeed in sustaining its unity of city-states as it had done in the beginning. Athens pushed the Delian league members to pay ever-increasing tributes while providing them with ever-increasingly limited services. When the Persian menace faded, some city-states attempted to leave the Delian league due to the exorbitant "membership fees," but Athens refused and attacked them. So, at the start of the Delian league, everything was bright and all the city-states were equal. After a while, all of the power and financial resources transferred to Athens, and the league was governed as if it were one of their manageable sponsors. All of this contributed to Athens becoming a powerful city-state and ushering in the Golden Age. The more powerful Athens became, the more enemies it