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Athenian imperial use of League money is a completed extraction heading

Dated 1 January 454: Athenian imperial use of League money is a completed extraction heading. In the causal graph this event strengthens Institutional Corruption, a driver that strengthens Political corruption index — a worsening welfare path.

Sources: [1][2]

Read the full account

Tribute-to-building as later told. Shared assembly and allies. Pericles did not operate this later page as a civil-registry autograph.

Context

Shared institutions, unnamed crews, and later editors remain in the record and do not erase a documented heading.

Pericles Shared work with other named actors remains in the record.

Pericles’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below.

Conventional c.495–429 BCE. Thucydides’ Funeral Oration is literary testimony, not a stenograph.

Why it matters

Tribute-to-building as later told. Shared assembly and allies.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Pericles

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.4 · verified

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactAthenian imperial use of League money is a completed extraction heading
    2. strengthensDriverInstitutional Corruption
    3. strengthensIndicators (3)Political corruption index
    Worsening path

    impact weight 0.55 · Effect from 1 January 454 · verified

    Tribute-to-building as later told. Shared assembly and allies.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Britannica — Peloponnesian WarEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Perseus — Thucydides, HistoryPerseus Digital Library / Tufts · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Pericles did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorPericles
  2. contributed toFactAthenian imperial use of League money is a completed extraction heading
  3. strengthensDriverInstitutional Corruption
  4. strengthensIndicatorPolitical corruption index

Cite this page

Factrail. (2026). Athenian imperial use of League money is a completed extraction heading. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/per-delian-empire

https://factrail.ai/facts/per-delian-empire

Accessed 15 October 2026.

By the Factrail desk · Method: how we source and score · Last reviewed

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