Efforts to underscore washington's continued engagement in the region
Lobbyists can influence elected officials by presenting their point of view in a carefully reasoned and detailed manner like stopping an oil pipeline for example and showing how many people oppose it and petitions can be used for this also and also using the knowledge that for every person who speaks up about something there are 100 more voters out there who believe the same thing.
After the Persian Wars, the Greeks were worried about the Persians coming back to ate like Greece and destroy more city-states so all of Greece (excluding Sparta) formed the Delian League. Athens slowly dissolves this league by using its persuasive voice, "maybe we should move our treasury to Athens because we'll be handling the money" and since Athens was smart, many Greek city-state followed blindly, " ok, oops we just handed all of our money and freedom the the Athenians" This almost empire/league freed almost all Greeks from Persian control and a leading politician lead Athens to do become an empire, ask greek city-states for steady payments (taxes) and demanding loyalty (no freedom). This leading politician was Pericles, you need to know about Pericles to explain how the Delian league formed into an empire, Pericles even used the league's treasury to rebuild Atens and guided Athens for 30 years and even through the Peloponnesian war.
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