The Greek city-states in Asia Minor were tricked into revolt by the Greek tyrant of Miletus to protect himself against Persian retaliation for his misconduct.
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Its defeat and takeover by Alexander the Great.
The carefully planned and executed successful assault by Alexander the Great.
At this time presian rulers raised taxes to pay for their luxuries. This angered their subjects and caused many rebellions. Also, the persian royal family fought over who was to be king. Sons were constantly plotting to take over the throne. As a result, six of the nine rulers after Darius were murdered. These problems weakend the Empire and led to its decline.
The assault by Alexander the Great, who replaced the empire with his own Macedonian Empire. It was split up into several Hellenistic kingdoms after Alexander's death.
The Greek city-states, used to independence, rebelled. The spark was Aristagoras the Greek tyrant of Miletus, who had been appointed by Persia, had persuaded the Persian provincial governor to get involved in a failed takeover of the island of Naxos, and expecting retribution, conned the Greek cities into revolt to cover himself.
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The Persian Empire had no one to rebel against, it was the strongest power in the region until it was taken over by Alexander the Great.
Its defeat and takeover by Alexander the Great.
The Greek city-states in Asia Minor within the Persian Empire revolted.
The carefully planned and executed successful assault by Alexander the Great.
At this time presian rulers raised taxes to pay for their luxuries. This angered their subjects and caused many rebellions. Also, the persian royal family fought over who was to be king. Sons were constantly plotting to take over the throne. As a result, six of the nine rulers after Darius were murdered. These problems weakend the Empire and led to its decline.
Alexander the Great took conquered it and took it over as his own empire.
The assault by Alexander the Great, who replaced the empire with his own Macedonian Empire. It was split up into several Hellenistic kingdoms after Alexander's death.
Conquest by another city, Athens' encouragement of democracies within it's empire, Athens being stripped of it's empire after it lost the Peloponesian War, absorption by the Persian Empire, liberation from the Persian Empire, and in the west, absorption by a tyrant in Sicily.
The Persian provincial capital of Sardis was burnt be an expeditionary force from the cities of Eretria and Athens, both from outside the Persian Empire, but interfering in the revolt by the Ionian League which was in the empire. This caused Persia to move against them in 480 BCE to prevent such external interference.
The warlike restlessness of the Greek cities in Asia Minor and the Islands, which disrupted the peace and prosperity in the western Asian part of the Empire.