What is the Greek war with Persia?

499-449 BCE.

There was no war between Persia and Sparta, and no specific battle between Sparta and Persia. Sparta was at times part of a Greek force fighting Persia, and at other times was allied to Persia. But there was no specific Sparta-Persia war or battle.

Persia and its tributary states and allied Greek states versus the southern Greek states.

The Greek city-states which did not side with Persia.

Persia and the Greek city-states.

They were different - one was Persia versus a coalition of Greek city-states; the other was Greek city-states versus Greek city-states.

Persia wanted to maintain peace and prosperity within its empire. The Greek cities within its empire revolted and Greek cities outside the empire intervened in support of them. Persia decided to put an end to this by incorporating them into the empire. The war spread.

The Persian War 499-449 BCE between Persia and Greek city-states led on to the Peloponnesian War 431-404 BCE between Greek city-states no longer constrained by the threat of Persia, and free to go back to their usual occupation of fighting each other.

Greek attacks on the Persian navy

Generally they were in opposition and sometimes at war. At times some of the Greek city-states were allies of Persia. At other times Persia ruled large numbers of Greek cities and tried to keep them peaceful with mixed success.

Horrific death and dsetruction. It is a mater of how they were different: - the Persian War was an attempt by Persia to include the Greek cities within its empire to enforce peace. - the Peloponnesian War was attempt by Athens to dominate the Greek world.

Where is the greek city-state of persia located?

Which Persian War? Persia fought the Greek city-states over 2,000 years ago; is your question regarding that Persian War?

On one side, Persia. The Greek opposition was led by Sparta and in its later stages by Athens.

The Persian War lasted 499-449 BCE. At its end Persia agreed to stay away from the Greek cities in Asia.

Persia was trying to impose peace on the Asia Minor Greek cities. Some Greek cities outside the Empire intervened so the war spread, and what was an attempt to put an end to the endless fighting between Greek cities in the eastern Mediterranean became a war between mixed sides, with many Greeks siding with Persia, and many in opposition. The interim answer after 50 years of war was the Persians gave up and left the…

The Persian wars started with the revolt by the Greek cities within the Persian Empire. Athens and Eretria sent support to this revolt and Persia resolved to punish them. A punitive expedition was turned back at Marathon. Persia then resolved on a full-scale invasion to bring all the Greek cities under control.

The Ionian Greek city-states revolted against Persian rule. Other Greek cities joined in and Persia attempted to put it down.

Persia was attempting to include the Greek cities within its empire to stabilise its borders. The Greek citiy-states objected.

Persia tried to include the Greek city-states in its empire to bring peace to the eastern Mediterranean.

The Greek city-state which combined to oppose a Persian takeover won critical battles and were eventually successful in getting Persia to agree to stay away from Greek cities after 50 years of intermittent warfare. Fifty fears after that, after the Greek cities had wrecked the Greek world with their incessant fighting amongst themselves, Persia imposed the King's Peace to force an end to this fighting spilling over into the Persian Empire, and also re-absorbed the…

It did not lead to Greek unification. Half the Greek states were on the side of Persia, and after the southern Greek city-states repelled the persian invasion, they went back to their usual activity to fighting each other, leading eventually to the disastrous Peloponnesian War which devastated Greece.

There was no Persian War II. The fighting went on from 499 to 449 BCE in various phases. The Ionian Revolt was crushed by Persia. The punitive expedition against Eretria and Athens was lost by the former and repelled by Athens. The invasion of Peninsular Greece was repelled by the southern Greek states. Thereafter the Greek alliance repeatedly defeated Persian forces until Persia agreed to cease attacks on the Greek cities.

Persia agreed to stay out of the Greek world in the Eastern Mediterranean, and after the war Athens turned the anti-Persian league into an empire for its own benefit.

Athens long ago, then they made peace saying both, but Athens had more controll still, they became allies, and then they had war with Persia, that's all I know, but theres probably so much more! Spartans were considered both greek and roman! After the war with Persia, Athens and its states had a war with Sparta again, or the only time, and Sparta actually did team up with Persia, Spartans won the war, granting Athens…

The Spartans had the famous 300, but there were Athenians there too. After Persia won and destroyed Athens, a double spy led them to the wrong straight, so they were overwhelmed by greek ships. The Persians had to retriet. The Greeks destroyed the Persian bridge but kept a peice for a trophy. With Persia out of their homland the Spartans and Athenians teamed up once more to defeat the Persians. The war lasted 3 years…

The wars between Persia and the Greek world went on for two hundred years. Which period did you want information on?

1. The Greek city-states in Asia Minor revolted but were put down. 2. Persia tried to punish Athens for intervening in this revolt but failed. 3. Persia then decided to include all the mainland Greek cities within its empire to stop their incessant warfare and its spillover into its empire and invaded Greece. The southern Greek city-states resisted. The war went on from 499-449 BCE.

Persia agreed not to further interfere in the Greek cities in Asia Minor and the Islands. Athens turned the Delian League which had opposed the Persian Empire into an empire of it own. When Athens became embroiled in the Peloponnesian War against the Peloponnesian League, Persia had its revenge by helping the Peloponnesians led by Sparta to defeat Athens and strip it of its empire. It ended Persian attempts to control Greek war-making, leaving the…

A fifty-year war 499-449 BCE in which Persia tried to incorporate the Greek city-states within its empire to establish peace in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Persia was determined to have a stable empire with defensible borders - picking on the Aegean Sea as the western border. Some Greek city-states in mainland Greece were the mother-cities of Greek cities in Asia Minor, within that border, and gave support to uprisings of thos cities. Persia decided to incorporate the Greek cities within its empire borders to create an ethnic frontier. The Greek cities which were to be incorporated disagreed and banded together…

They ceased fighting each other to unite and repel Persia, and then when a peace treaty with Persia was established, went back to their usual fighting each other with increased ferocity.

Persia set about consolidating its empire without the Greek city-states, however the ongoing wars between the cities which it had sought to control continued with increasing ferocity. It intervened by providing a fleet for the Spartan alliance which helped in defeat of the Athenian empire. Even so the Greek city wars continued with varying alliances, and to avoid the inevitable spillovers, the Persia ruler had to declare the 'Kings Peace', threatening retaliation on any of…

In the war settlement Persia agreed to stay away from the Greek city-states in Asia Minor and the Islands. After 65 years the Persians took them over again as the Greek city-states busily fought each other.

Persian War: a coalition of the southern Greek city-states versus an expeditionary force from Persia with its local Greek allies. Peloponnesian War: the Athenian league/empire versus a mainly Peloponnesian League led by Sparta.

Persia went to war with Greece (Athens and Sparta) as Persia wanted their land and Athens, Sparta and some other greek states said "No, you can not own our land." Or A Catalyst for the first war against the Persians was the Ionian Revolt. The Persians and the Greeks shared a border along the land known as Ionia in Asia Minor. The Greeks revolted and burned a village. Thus leading to a Persian counter-attack and…

A peace was arranged between Persia and the Greek cities under which Persia agreed to stay away from the Greek cities in Asia Minor and left the Greek to pursue their usual wars against each other. Athens then converted the alliance of these cities (Delian League) which it had led against the Persian Empire into an empire of its own. It used this power to interfere in the affairs of the other Greek city-states outside…

After 50 years of fighting, Persia agreed to stay away from the Greek city-states in Asia Minor and the Islands.

Persia was trying to incorporate mainland Greece within its empire. Many of the Greek city-states resisted.

The were leading cities of about two hundred Greek city-states which combined and fought to keep Persia from absorbing them into its empia

Persia did NOT fight in World War 1.

Greek city-states intervened in a revolt by Greek city-states in Asia Minor. Persia put down the revolt, then sent an expedition to put Eretria and Athens under control. This failed so Persia mounted a major invasion, a;; [art of a 50 year war.

The war ended when Persia agreed to stay away from the Greek cities in Asia Minor. Persia had intervened when the Greek cities in Asia Minor revolted against their rule and attempts to promote peace and prosperity, and the war spread to mainland Greece. After 50 years in 449 BCE of fighting, the Persians gave up and concentrated on running its empire. This left the independent Greek city-states to return to their usual fighting amongst…

Persia agreed to a peace treaty in 449 BCE in which Persia agreed to stay out of Greek waters.

Persia tried to incorporate the Greek city-states of the eastern Mediterranean within its empire to promote peace. Most resisted. After many battles over 50 years, 499-449 BCE, Persia failed and gave up and left the Greek city-states to continue fighting amongst themselves.

The Greek city-states within the Persian Empire in Asia Minor revolted, and the mainland Greek city-states of Eretria and Athens intervened. After putting the revolution down, Persia decided to punish the two cities and bring them under control of tyrants to stop further interference into its empire. This intervention was defeated at Marathon, so Persia decided to bring all of mainland Greece under its control to put an end to unrest. This resulted in continuing…

In the Persian War, for the first part Sparta led a coalition of southern Greek city-states resisting the Persian invasion of Greece; In the second part, Athens took the lead aginst Persia. In the Peloponnesian War, Athens and the empire it had gained from organising the second part of the war against Persia fought the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta.

After 50 years of fighting, Persia agreed to stay away from the Greek city-states in Asia Minor and the Islands.

It had 180 triremes, each with a crew of 200, making up half of the Greek fleet opposing Persia.

From 480 to 479 BCE. It lingered on until 449 BCE when peace between Persia and the Greek cities was agreed on.