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What two city state united to defeat the Persians in the Persian war?
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∙ 12y ago
If you mean Sparta and Athens, they were not rivals but supported each other. The rivalry came after the Persian invasion was repelled and Athens turned the Delian League it had led against the Persian Empire into an empire of its own and used its resources to try to dominate the Greek world.
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∙ 7y ago
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∙ 7y agoThere were scores of armies - those of the Greek city-states in Asia Minor which revolted against Persian rule. They lost after a six year struggle.
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∙ 7y agoIn 499 BCE the Ionian-Greek city-states in Asia Minor revolted against Persian rule. Over the next six years the Persians progressively defeated them and restored control.
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∙ 12y agoAthens and Sparta.
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Why were the Greeks able to defeat the Persians?
They adopted a superior strategy of first defeating the Persian navy, and cutting off their sea supply line. The Persians had to send half their army home for the winter, and the Greeks united the city-state armies to defeat the depleted Persian army.
In 400 BC the expanding Persian empire invaded Greece twice Greek city state including Athens and Sparta united to defeat the Persians?
The Persian Wars covered 499 to 449 BCE in several phases. The invasion of mainland Greece was 480-479 BCE.
What religion was practiced in the Persian Empire?
Zoroastrianism was the dominant religion practiced in the Persian Empire. It was founded by the prophet Zoroaster and emphasized concepts of duality between good and evil, free will, and the worship of one supreme deity, Ahura Mazda.
Athens Spartha other city-state join to fight the Persians?
Athens led 180 eastern Greek city-states against the Persians in the last 30 years of the 50-year Persian War.
What is a Persian gulf state starting with the letter you?
United Arab Emirates
Why did Greek city state form the Delian league?
they formed the delian league because they had to join toegether to defeat the Persians
What was the Persian rule of Israel called?
Restoration Prior to Israel (Judea) returning to its earlier state of being a sovereign nation it was ruled by Persia, after the destruction of Solomon's Temple. This time of rule was called the Persian period.
What does the defeat of the Persian Empire mean for Athens as a city state?
It allowed it to convert the Delian League which it led against the Persian Empire into an empire of its own and live high on the hog on the proceeds.
What is the name of a state occupying a peninsula in the Persian Gulf?
That could be United Arab Emirates.
What reasons can you think of as to why some of the smaller Greek city state already had conceded defeat?
The Persians had used their usual preliminary of bribery - their emissaries had been through the Greek city-states offering bribes to the aristocracies to accept Persian rule within which they would retain of their own city-state. It worked with the northern ones, but the southern ones resisted.
Which of Persian wars and peloponnesian was more determinative?
Neither - they both left Greece in a state of undecided warfare, still fighting the Persians, and still fighting each other.
What king of the Greek empire defeated the Persians and took control of Judah?
The Judeans did not defeat Persia, the Persians under their king Cyrus the Great took control of Judah which was already under control of the Babylonians whom Persia replaced as ruler. The Babylonians had already deported the entire aristocracy of Judea. Persian king Cyrus the Great allowed them to return and try to reclaim their ancestral estates.
