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For the Greeks, the Persian War was warding off Persian dominance. The Peloponnesian War was a protracted fight to terminate the Athenian Empire's attempt to dominate the other Greek city-states.
A war is not a battle. The Persian War arose from Persia's attempt to stop war in the western part of its empire by bringing the constantly-warring Greek city-states to peace.
Some of the Greek city-states joined with Persia, the southern cities opposed the Persian attempt to absorb them into the Persian empire.
1st- Battle of Marathon 2nd- Battle of Thermopylae 3rd- Battle of Salamis 4th- Battle of Plataea
Historians today think the 1st Persian war started around 490 BC.
First define the Second 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 are supposed to be 'First Persian War', Second Persian War' and 'Third Persian War' ?
First define the First Persian War. The Persian War ran 499-449 BCE - it had several pheses - 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?
No. That war was half a century later.
1. The people of the Greek city-states who banded together to resist the Persian attempt to keep them within the Persian Empire. 2. The people of the Persian Empire who manned the land and naval forces to prosecute the war.
An attempt by the Persian Empire to bring the incessantly warring Greek city-states under its control to stop the fighting spilling over into the Persian Empire and damaging its peace and prosperity.
there was the first Persian war then the second Persian war then the war that we are in today.
The Persian War was won by the Greek city-states who ban ded together to see off the Persian attempt to incorporate them within its empire. They won it by progressively establishing naval and land supremacy over the Persian forces over a period of fifty years, so that the Persians gave up.