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When did the Athenian's gain control of the Aegean Sea?

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445-431 BC

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Empire and the return of war: 445-431 BC

Trading networks, backed up by force, gave Athens control over the whole of the Aegean and the Black Sea. Pericles overreaches himself in 433, in a move that leads to a breach of his own Thirty Years Treaty.

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