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The battle of Marathon is rather falsely touted in those terms. In fact it was a Persian punitive expedition against Athens for interfering in Greek city revolutions in Asia Minor (within the Persian Empire). Their loss at Marathon persuaded the Persians to return, though this was defeated by the southern Greek cities ten years later. It was not Persian despotism, it was about the Persians trying to maintain peace within their empire without having outsiders stoking up trouble. After a long intermittent war, Persia gave up and left the Greek cities to go back to their usual fighting each other.

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