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The Battle of Salamis involved the Persian Empire - it was part of the invasion led by King Xerxes to try to bring the Greek city-states under control to stop their internecine warring spilling over into his empire.
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What was Solon's role in the battle for Salamis?
He died nearly eighty years before the battle..
What war was the Parthenon in?
Parthenon was there in both the first [490 BCE] and the second [480 BCE] Persian Greek wars but was destroyed by the Persians when they entered the evacuated city of Athens just before the naval battle of Salamis where the Greeks won the Persian and Phoenician fleets.
Did moses defeat the Persian Empire?
Moses is a legendary figure said to have existed long before the Persian Empire came into existence.
What was the capital of the Persian Empire in 650 BC?
The Persian Empire did not come into being before 550 BCE. It's capital was then Susa.
Before Alexander the Great died who had he conquered?
The Persian Empire.
Was the general Belisarius able to defeat the Persian army?
Flavius Belisarius was a general of the Byzantine Empire who served under Justinian I. He was unable to defeat the Persian Army at the Battle of Callinicum.
Who won Persia or Rome?
The Persian empire was gone before the Roman empire became powerful.
What caused the Sparta and the Persian war start?
There was no 'Spartan-Persian' War. There were two main Persian invasions, in 490BC by Darius I and 480BC by Darius' son Xerxes I. Sparta arrived too late at the main battle of the First invasion which the Athenians crushed at Marathon. In the second Persian war, Sparta sacrificed their best men along with their King (Leonidas I 490-480BC) at the battle of Thermopylae. 700 Thespians and 300 Thebans also gave their lives to delay the Persian advance. The Persians marched onto Athens which they sacked while the Athenians were safe on the island of Salamis. The Athenian fleet then defeated the vastly outnumbering Persian fleet at the battle of Salamis. The enormous land army engaged with 10000 Spartans leading about 30000 other Greeks at the battle of Plataea in 479BC and defeated the Persian invasion which then returned home to Sardis. The cause of the wars were simply Persia's desire to expand her empire and although many Greeks 'medized' and let the Persians occupy, many would not. Sparta's great belief in tradition (which did ultimately lead to her collapse) and her law of 'Never surrender' meant that submitting to the Persian occupation was not an option. However, Sparta was reluctant to engage in the war, and many states had raised arms long before Sparta.
What was the full extent Alexander's empire before his death?
Alexander conquered Egypt, Macedonia, and the Persian Empire.
What was the full extent of Alexanders empire before his death?
Alexander conquered Egypt, Macedonia, and the Persian Empire.
What was the most powerful empire before Alexander the Great started?
The Persian Empire, which Alexander captured and took over.
Why was the battle of Plataea a turning point of the Persian war?
The turning point was the defeat of the Persian fleet at Salamis the year before, which saw the naval threat to the Greek cities ended and enabled them to send their armies to Plataea to unite instead of being kept at home trying to defend their cities, and half the Persian army sent home as there was no food for it in the winter without a fleet to supply it. Plataea saw the defeat of the reduced Persian land force and ended the invasion.
