How did the Persians lose the Persian Wars?

Answer 1

They lost the punitive expedition against Eretria and Athens in 490 BCE - successful against Eretria captured and its inhabitants sold into slavery, but lost against Athens at Marathon. The Persians split their force, sending their cavalry by sea to take Athens by treachery. When the Athenians at Marathon saw the cavalry embarked, they rushed down from the hills where they had been lurking to avoid the cavalry, and ran over the inferior Persian infantry. They then ran back the 26 miles to Athens and formed up in front of the city gates to stop the cavalry. The Persians went home.

The real invasion to take over mainlaand Greece in 480 BCE was frustrated by losing the naval battle of Salamis, which removed the threat of amphibious raids against the cities of the Peloponnese which kept the city armies a home to defend them. It also exposed the sea supply fleet of the Persian army. In a poor countryside, Xerxes had to take half his army home, and the following year the Greek cities concentrated against the remaining Persian army and its Greek allies at Plataia and defeated them. At the same time the Greek navies defeated the remaining Persian fleet at Mykale.

Athens then formed an anti-Persian alliance amongst the Greek cities in Persian territiories which ensured the success of subsequent naval battles at Eurymedon and Cyprus. The Persians then entered a peace treaty, undertaking to stay out of Greek waters.

Answer 2

By the Greeks 5th Century BCE - Marathon, Salamis, Plataia, Mykale, Eurymedon. By the Macedonians (Alexander) 4th Century BCE - Granicus, Issus, Gaugamela.

Answer 3

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