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Greek city-states of southern Greece combined their fleets to defeat the Persian navy at Salamis in 480 BCE. The following year, having removed the naval threat to their cities, they were able to send out their armies waich combined to win a land battle at Plataia and at the same time finished off the remaining Persian fleet at Mykale.

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Who did the Athens and Spartans unite to defeat?

The Persians who was led by Xerxes .


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Who won the Pelopanesis war?

Sparta beat Athens with the help of the Persians. The Spartans sold land in Asia Minor so that they could build a navy with that navy they crushed Athens' navy and Athens surrendered.


What was the battle names of Sparta and Athens when Sparta sent olny 300 men?

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Sparta's serf population revolted and Athens sent a force to help the Spartans put it down. Then the Athenian soldiers started to sympathise with the serfs , so the Spartans sent them home. Relations froze. When the Athenians made an empire out of the Delian League cities it had led against the persians, it became adventurous and interfered in the affairs of the cities of the Peloponnesian League which Sparta led. Sparta asked Athens to back off, an overconfident Athens persisted and war ensued.


How did the Sparta and the Athens unite to defeat the Persians?

daa Sparta brought the soldiers ndd the Athens brought theirr navy (:


What happend when Persia and Sparta had war?

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Are the Spartans and the Persians the same people?

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How much is true about the last 300 in greek mythology?

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Who beat the Spartans at thermoplyae?

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