They provided the impetus to form an anti-Persian alliance headed by Athens. When peace was made with Persia after 50 years of intermittent fighting, Athens converted this league into an empire of its own, and its expansionary tendencies brought it into confrontation with the Peloponnesian League, resulting in the 27-year Peloponnesian War which devastated the Greek world from Sicily to Asia Minor.
In its wake were two leagues of Greek city-states led by Athens and Sparta respectively, which proceded to fight each other for 27 years and devastate the Greek world.
First define the First Persian War. The Persian War ran 499-449 BCE - it had several phases - Ionian Revolt, Persian punitive expedition against Eretria and Athens, Persian invasion of mainland Greece, Greek counter-offensive. Which among this is supposed to be 'First Persian War'?
yes they did
Persian War.
It allowed the Greek city-states to return to their usual activity of fighting each other.
Xerxes I.
Herodotus
499 BCE
Persia lost.
NO! The Persian war was ancient Greece vs the Persians USA didnt even exist then.
The Persian War
The outcome set a limit to Persian expansion to the west.
The Persian invasion of peninsular Greece 480-479 BCE.