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During the Persian War Athens was destroyed by a Persian force led by the emperor?
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By the Persian king Xerxes.
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What civilization did Athens and Sparta fight during the Persian wars?
The Persian Empire .
What was the symbol for Athens during the Persian War?
Athena's owl.
Who aided Athens during the Persian War?
Athens became part of Greek resistance to Persian expansion, originally a couple of dozen cities, and then growing to a couple of hundred.
Did the Persians burn Athens to the ground?
No, they wanted to use Athens as a base, so they contented themselves with destroying the walls, and breaking the statues of the gods in retaliation for the Athenians having destroyed the Persian gods in the Persian provincial city of Sardis in Asia Minor when Athenian forces had invaded it 18 years earlier during the Ionian revolt.
What events strikes the Athens during the war?
Persian War I, Persian War II, The Peloponnesean War, The Macedonian War, …
Who ordered the first Persian invasion of Greece?
The first Persian invasion of Greece was during the Persian Wars in 492 BCE. It was ordered by the Persian King Darius I to punish the city-states of Athens and Eretria.
Greek city-states formed a alliance under the leadership of Athens and Sparta during their conflict with who?
during the greeco-persian war...
Which factors enabled the Greeks to win the 3rd Persian war?
During the Persian invasion of mainland Greece, the Greeks destroyed the Persian navy, and in the third phase of the 50-year war, their navy dominated the seas, enabling them to win the sea-land operation against Persia for the next 30 years until the Persians gave up and agreed to peace.
Which two countries joined together during the Persian wars?
Sparta and Athens were amongst a large number of Greek city-states which opposed the Persian invasion.
Pericles rebuilt Athens and constructed this master piece?
Pericles was a leader of Athens who was responsible for rebuilding Athens following the Persian Wars. He was also leader of Athens during the Peloponnesian War, but he died of the plague that ravaged the city.
Why was the parthnon invented?
The Parthenon was built as a temple to the Greek goddess, Athena, believed by the people of Athens to be their protector. It was built between the years 447 and 432BC on the site of an older temple also dedicated to Athena and destroyed during the Persian invasion of 480BC.
Did the golden age of Athens happen before or after the war?
After the Persian War, when Athens converted the Delian League, which it had led during the war, into an empire of its own and reaped the profits - a golden age indeed.
