Why Did Sparta Win The Peloponnesian War

The Peloponnesian War lasted from 431 to 404 B.C. and would put the Spartan empire in control of the entire Greek peninsula. The struggle between the two Greek mega powers, Sparta and Athens, began less than fifty years after they defeated the Persians. Athenian control of the seas would have to be equal to the Persian money if Sparta was going to win the war, and finally at the Battle of Syracuse, the Spartans showed that they were the masters of land and sea within Greece. With Sparta now in control of the Greek empire, it was necessary to provide men with duties other than war fighting and training all the time. The problem with keeping Greece together as one political unit with the Spartans as the political center would prove to be their