The year is 425 BC. The Spartan led Peloponnese League is in the midst of fighting the Athenian led Delian League. Although the armies of Sparta and her allies have almost complete control of the mainland, Athens has a trick up her sleeve that could change the outcome of the war. The superior Athenian fleet manages to capture the port of Pylos on the southwestern part of the Peloponnese peninsula. As news of this spreads, helots (slaves) across all of Sparta begin to run away in an attempt to make it to freedom. When they reach Pylos they are given weapons and are told to free their families. Within a year, a massive slave revolt erupts throughout all of Sparta's land. At the same time, A massive Delian League army has assembled in Attica and has begun to march west. Although her soldiers are the best in the world, it is too much for Sparta to bear. Without slaves to run the economy, Spartan society falls apart, famine sweeps across the peninsula, and the Athenian army sacks Sparta in 423 BC. Sparta is destroyed and democratic Athens becomes the dominant power of Greece.
If this scenario occurred, what would the effects of it be? The Peloponnesian War would have ended 19 years earlier and Athens would have ended up on top. I believe that with her mighty navy she and her Delian League allies would have went on to subjugate Sparta's allies in the rest of Greece. Also, because the war ended 19 years earlier, Greece would be much stronger and might have been able to defeat Macedon, thus preventing Alexander the Great from becoming great. From here I could see a Athenian led Greek empire expanding and conquering the entire part of the Balkan peninsula south of the Danube, all of Sicily, and most of Western Anatolia. With Athen's navy she could take on Carthage and by managing to avoid decades upon decades of infighting between the city states (this happened because of a Spartan victory), the Greeks would be powerful enough to take on the Romans, and even maybe be able to conquer all Southern Italy as well.
Is it possible, or do I need alien space bats to make this come true?
