In the early stages from 499 BCE when Persia dominated, they were able to use Greek inter-city rivalries and disunity, ease of bribing their leaders, and in the field, the superiority of their cavalry and the fleets, which latter they levied from Phoenecia, Egypt and the Ionian Greeks as well.
As the Greeks gained more cohesion and the will to combine for their common defence, they were able to consistently defeat the Persians on sea and land, until Persia agreed to peace in 449 BCE.
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Marathon - it was the Athenians.
Go back to their habitual fighting of each other.
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The Greeks never wanted to defeat the Persians,they rather responded in an attack by them and their ruler Xerxis.It started as a defensive war and escalated in taking the conflict deep into the Persian empire.
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Superior tactics using armoured warriors.
Cyprus 450 BCE.
someone who told the Greeks to stand their ground so they could defeat the Persians at Thermopylae.
someone who told the Greeks to stand their ground so they could defeat the Persians at Thermopylae.
Persia agreed to stay away from Greek city-states in the eastern Aegean littoral.