Why Did Athens Lose The Peloponnesian War

In 404 B.C., Athens lost the Peloponnesian War against Sparta, but what if this never happened? One of the factors that eventually led to Athen's demise was a plague that erupted and killed one-third of Athen's population. If this plague never occurred and Athens won the war, Greek history would be very different. Athens and the rest of Greece might have become a world power, and present day life would be drastically different. Note: WHICH ONE IS BETTER? Tensions first arose between Athens and Sparta after the Greco-Persian war when Athens protected its ally Corcyra, against Sparta's allies, Corinth and Megara. Sparta took this as an act of hostility and a war erupted. Athens had a very strong navy, while Sparta's main strength was its army. Athen's military leader was Pericles, and to protect the citizens of a territory named Attica, he moved them into the walls of Athens. Athens was well prepared and could survive a siege behind it great strong walls, but the unforeseeable happened. A plague erupted because of the over population within the tight walls of Athens. Athens lost around one third of its population and Pericles was fined an no longer left in charge of the military. After the plague, Athens became ruthless against its enemies and fought extremely hard. Athens became so powerful that they almost beat

The Renaissance would have never happened, so all of the technological advancements during that period would have never happened. Inventions such as the airplane was invented by Americans. Romans would probably find a different equivalent to this but the world would be very different. Most likely there would be less tension between countries but there would be tensions within one empire which is even worse. All of the cultures that have been developed over the past hundreds of years would cease to exist and an average American' life would be polar