It continued on for another 150 years until taken over by Macedonia led by Alexander the great.
Thermopylae.480 BCE.
The Persian Empire.
The Persian Empire was not a person.
It was fought to protect the Spartan and Greek homeland from the invading Persian Empire.
Destruction of the Persian fleet meant the eventual failure of the Persian attempt to incorporate the mainland Greek city-states within the Persian Empire.
It was the site of a battle between Athens and Plataea and a Persian expeditionary force sent to take over Athens and reinstall an Athenian tyrant to prevent it causing further trouble within the Persian Empire. The Athenians repelled the Persian force at the battle.
After destroying Persian sea power at the battle of Salamis, they were able to defeat their army, and so end the attempt by the Persians to incorporate the cities of mainland Greece into the Persian Empire.
The naval battle of Salamis 480 BCE. The land battle of Plataea 479 BCE. The sea-land battle of Mycale 479 BCE.
Persian king Cambyses brought Egypt into the Persian Empire.
Darius I --- King of Persian Empire during First Persian War, 490 BC. Xerxes --- King of Persian Empire during Second Persian War, 480-479 BC. Mardonius --- Persian general in both Persian Wars. Datis and Artaphernes --- Persian generals at Battle of Marathon. Miltiades --- Athenian general at Battle of Marathon. Leonidas --- Spartan general at Battle of Thermopylae. Themistocles --- Athenian admiral at Battle of Salamis. Pausanias --- Spartan general at Battle of Plataea.
The Achaemenid Empire.
It helped end the Persian invasion, together with Salamis and Mycale. However the Persian War went on for another 30 years. And the Persians regained the territory it lost later as the Greeks paralysed themselves fighting each other, Persia took back control of its territories in Asia Minor.
After destroying Persian sea power at the battle of Salamis, they were able to defeat their army, and so end the attempt by the Persians to incorporate the cities of mainland Greece into the Persian Empire.
The Battle of Pteria in 547 BCE, between the Persian forces of Cyrus the Great and the Lydian army of Croesus.
Itprovided a large naval contingent for the battle of Salamis, which crippled the Persian naval forces, it provided the second largest army contingent for the battle of Plataea which defeated the Persian land forces, and led the security forces of the Delian League for the liberated Greek city-states in Asia Minor, including the later sea battles culminating in Cyprus. It then converted the Delian league into an empire of its own and lived high on the profits therefrom.
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.
Thermopylae.480 BCE.