The Aegean Sea littoral.
The Greeks stood their ground and fought for their freedom against the Persians. Their victory caused the Greeks many lives.
The Greeks stood their ground and fought for their freedom against the Persians. Their victory caused the Greeks many lives.
After being diverted for 50 years from fighting each other into fighting the Persians, their victory let them get back to their usual destructive inter-city warfare.
The Greeks stood their ground and fought for their freedom against the Persians. Their victory caused the Greeks many lives.
. . . superior tactics and armour .
Marathon, Greece .
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Egyptians, Persians, Greeks, Romans.
Pan is alleged to have supported them.
In the Eastern Mediterranean Sea and its littoral. They fought to prevent Persia incorporating them into its empire to stop their incessant and disruptive internal fighting amongst each other, which spilt over into the Persian Empire.
The Greeks were operating in 'internal lines', that is they were able to get their soldiers, weapons and food from local sources. The Persians had to bring theirs from Asia, and after their fleet was defeated at Salamis, had to send half their army home as they could not support them. With evened numbers, the superiority of the Greek armoured infantry was telling over the unarmoured Persian infantry, and they negated the Persian cavalry advantage by fighting on rough ground.
They were appalled by their constant fighting of each other, and this spilling over into the Persian Empire, harming its peace and prosperity. Therefore they tried to bring the Greek city-states inside the Persian Empire to be able to control their disruptions.