What was the name of the 50-year peace treaty concluded between Athens and Sparta in 421 BC?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: D. Peace of Nicias
- Step 1: The Peace of Nicias was a peace treaty signed between the Greek city-states of Athens and Sparta in March 421 BC that ended the first half of the Peloponnesian War. Answer: Peace of Nicias. Why not the others: "Peace of Callias" was the mid-5th-century BC treaty that supposedly concluded the Persian Wars; "Peace of Philocrates" was concluded in 346 BC between Athens and Philip II of Macedon; "King's Peace" was dictated by Persian King Artaxerxes II in 387 BC ending the Corinthian War.
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