The primary causes were that Sparta feared of the growing power and influence of the Athenian empire
The british won the war but the boers won the ensuring peace so go with the british :)
John of Damascus was the most ardent defender of icons. Iconoclasts, meaning "icon breakers" were those who were against the practice. They feared it would lead to idolatry, forbidden by the bible. He wrote many amounts of writings on the topic of icons that remains today.
