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What finally caused Athens to

surrender to Sparta, ending
the Peloponnesian War?
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User Dimitris Makris
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Answer:

The destruction of Athens's fleet in the Battle of Aegospotami effectively ended the war, and Athens surrendered in the following year. Corinth and Thebes demanded that Athens should be destroyed and all its citizens should be enslaved, but Sparta refused.

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