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Did the Persians and the Greeks actually fight before the Persian war ended?
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What did the Greeks like before the Persian Wars?
Fighting each other. When the Persians withdrew, the were free to go back to this internal fighting again with a gusto.
What war was the Parthenon in?
Parthenon was there in both the first [490 BCE] and the second [480 BCE] Persian Greek wars but was destroyed by the Persians when they entered the evacuated city of Athens just before the naval battle of Salamis where the Greeks won the Persian and Phoenician fleets.
Did the Greeks attack first in the battle of marathon?
Greeks could have attacked before the Persians but a lot of the evidence points to the Persians attacking first, the Persians were most likely to have fought when they got off their boats and when they encountered in the valley, but, the Greeks were to have probably ran away into the valley than to have been chased.
What are some people who lived BEFORE christ?
Jews, Romans, Greeks, Persians, Indians, Chinese, Mesapotamians, Egyptians, Japanese.......
Was Greece part of the Persian Empire?
Mainland Greece in ancient times was not part of the Persian Empire, though many Greek lands in what is now Turkey were conquered by Persia. It was Greek military resistance to two Persian invasions that kept it out of the Persian Empire.
How did the Greeks defeat the Persians before their golden age?
They established naval supremacy which placed the Persians at such a disadvantage that they ceased trying to enforce peace on the Greek cities and left them to continue on their unceasing internal warfare against each other.
Why did the Persians grow unhappy with their government?
There is no basis for this statement. The Persian Empire lasted for two hundred years before being invaded and taken over by Macedonia.
What were the Greecks able to use to win the battle of salamis?
They used clever strategy and tactics. The Greeks gave out the idea that they were going to flee from Salamis, and so the Persians sent a third of their fleet around to cover the rear channel. This evened up the two adversaries actually present at the battle. The Greeks also stayed in the strait at Salamis. The Persians, thinking the Greeks would try to escape in either direction, sat all night at their oars in a heavy sea swell to block any exit, and so were exhausted by the morning of the battle. They then had to enter the bay by splitting their fleet into two to go around each side of the island of Psyttaleia and so were on these two narrow fronts rather than is proper battle formation. This allowed the Greeks to strike them from the flanks before they could reform. And this was particularly decisive as the lighter Greek ships relied on ramming the sides of the Persian ships which preferred to close with an enemy ship and fight it side on. They were able to drive into the sides of the extended lines of Persian ships.
What is the cause of the Persian war?
When Greek cities in Ionia under Persian rule rebelled, Athens, and some other Greek cities, sent arms and supplies to their aid. The Persians resented this interference and sent a punitive expedition to punish Athens. This led to the Battle of Marathon. When Athens defeated the Persians, which the Greeks called The Medes, Darius swore to return with overwhelming force, but he died before he could do so. His son, Xerxes, planned the expedition, but was sidetracked until after he could suppress a revolt in Egypt. Then, he brought a vast army supported by an armada of ships.
What happened first the Persian War or the Peloponnesian War?
The Persian wars were between the Greeks of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Persians. The Persians wanted to stabilise their empire while the Greek cities were rebelling within it or supporting those rebellions from the outside. After 50 years of warfare, the Greeks outlasted the Persians and an agreement for Persia to recognise their independence was arranged in 449 BCE. The Peloponnesian war was between the empire established by Athens out of the cities which allied to repel the Persians, and a Peloponnesian League headed by Sparta which opposed Athens when it transferred its attentions to its Greek neighbours. It lasted 431-404 BCE, at the end of which Athens lost the empire it had created.
What steps did Alexander take to conquer the Persian Empire?
He took over the project from his father Phillip II who was assassinated on the eve of his departure for Asia. It was to be a task lasting a decade and required a sequence of methodical steps to achieve total success. He first defeated a Persian army at Granicus, and massacred the Greeks who were in Persian service providing the armoured infantry which they needed to face up to the Macedonian phalanx. This slaughter was to dissuade Greeks from Persian service, and meant that the Persians were left with inadequate unarmoured infantry. He defeated the Persians at a second battle at Issus in Syria, and captured their treasury, which gave him the funds to pay and feed his troops and mercenaries to continue on his campaign. He captured the coastal ports of Phoenicia and Egypt which deprived the Persians of their superior navy which could attack Macedonia and Greece and also cut off his supply of reinforcements. He moved with the harvest seasons to ensure food supply in Asia as it was impossible to move sufficient supplies in an age before motorised transport. He finally defeated the Persian army at Gaugamela which ended coordinated resistance. His campaigns thereafter were against isolated forces rather than the army of the empire.
What was life like before the Persian wars?
The Greek city-states fought each other semi-continuously. After the Persians were turned back, the cities went back to fighting each other.
