What are the effects that the Persian Wars and Peloponnesian Wars had on Greece?

Answer 1

The Persians had part of the Greek world within its empire, and these cites were restive and called in their mother-cities in peninsular Greece to intervene. Persia decided to incorporate these mainland cities within its empire under friendly local tyrants to restore peace.

Some of the mainland cities came to terms with Persia, the southern ones resisted. Persia invaded.

The Persians were repelled, and sporadic warfare ensued. After fifty years, peace was arranged and the Persians agreed to stay out of Greek affairs. They went back to controlling their previous territories and promoting peace and prosperity within them.

The Greek cities were then able to go back to their usual occupation of fighting each other.

Answer 2

The Greek city-states of Asia Minor within the Persian Empire revolted. The Greek cities in mainland Greece intervened and the Persians decided that the only way to preserve peace within its empire was to incorporate the mainland cities within the empire under local tyrants appointed by Persia. They negotiate and bribed this with some northern Greek cities, and when the southern cities refused, Persia invaded to enforce it. It took 50 years 499-449 BCE before the Persians gave up and left the cities to return to their usual fighting amongst each other.

Answer 3

The Greek city-states within the Persian Empire revolted in 499 BCE. The Persians put it down, and as Greek cities outside the empire had intervened, Persia resolved to establish control of all the cities to stop disruption of its empire.

Answer 4

Persia had absorbed a couple of hundred Greek city-states when it took over Asia Minor and the adjacent islands. The Greek mother-cities in mainland Greece got involved in supporting uprisings by these cities.

The Persians decided to put an end to this by absorbing mainland Greece and so establish an ethnic frontier. The mainland Greek city-states banded together to prevent this, repelling Persian invasions to implement their policy.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

The Greek city-states in Asia Minor revolted against Persian rule. Mainland Greek cities intervened, causing Persia to determine that it needed to bring all the Greek cities under control to impose peace within its empire. After the war dragged on for 50 years, the Persians gave up and left the Greeks to go back to fighting each other. Wealened by 70 years of this inter-city warfare, the Greek cities were an easy mark for a rising Macedonia, which took control of them, and used the combined power to take over the Persian Empire.

Answer 7

The Persian War led to Athens establishing an anti-Persian confederation (Delian League) which it turned into an empire of its own. With the financial and military power of this empire, Athens was emboldened to interfere in the affairs of other Greek cities, which brought it into collision with the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta. The result was the devastating 27-year Peloponnesian War, which Athens lost and also was stripped of its empire. This left Sparta dominant as wars between the Greek cities continued with various alliances, Thebes eventually toppling Sparta. This 60 years of inter-Greek warfare left the Greek world so weakened that it became an easy mark for the rising power Macedonia, with its Phillip II establishing himself a hegemon (leader) of the Greek world.