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What was significant about a unified Greek army fighting the Persians?
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∙ 7y ago
It was significance because the Greeks could form a coalition against a common enemy by setting aside the differences they had as individual city-states .
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∙ 11y ago
Wiki User
∙ 7y agoThe Greek city-states usually fought each other on a regular basis. Some of the cities temporarily ceased this to join to repel the Persians. But some other cities joined the Persian side.
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What did the Persian wars do for the Greek city-states?
It gave them a pause from fighting each other. After the Persians agreed to peace, the Greek cities were able to return to their normal fighting each other.
What was the impact of the Persian War?
The Persians gave up trying the stop the Greeks disrupting peace by fighting amongst themselves. Having seen off the Persians the Greek cities went back to fighting each other, engaging in devastating wars. The Persians left them to it.
What was one result of the greek victory against the persians?
They were able to get back to their usual occupation of fighting each other.
What were the results of the Persian War of the 5th Century BC?
The Greek city-states defeated the Persians in a series of sea and land battles. The Persians agreed to peace and the Greek cities went back to fighting each other with increasing ferocity, using the expanded forces they had used against the Persians.
Why did the Persians and the Greeks react differently to the end of the Persian war?
The Persians went back to running their empire responsibly and peacefully. The Greek city-states went back to fighting each other.
What were the Persians fighting for in the Persian War?
They were attempting to impose peace on the Greek city-states, whose fighting amongst each other was spilling over into the Persian Empire and disrupting it.
Persian and Greek similarities?
Both had well thought out strategies and military tactics, and large effective armies and fleets. Both relied on amalgamating separate forces. Both had large Greek components to their armies and navies, the Macedonians who were Greek, led a unified Greek army and the Persians paid Greek mercenaries.
What was the overall significance of the Greek victory over the Persians?
They were no longer threatened by Persia and could get back to their usual occupation of fighting each other.
What effect of the Persian Wars on the Greek city-states?
It diverted them for 50 years from their usual fighting of each other, to which they returned after the Persians agreed to stay away from the Greek cities in Asia.
Why did Athens Sparta and other Greek city-states band up to defeat Persia?
The Persians were sick and tired of the disruption caused by continuous fighting between the Greek city-states, with this spilling over into the Persian Empire, disrupting its peace and prosperity. They decided to bring these cities within the empire where they could be kept under control. Some of the Greek cities agreed to this, but the southern Greek cities opposed it and banded together to resist the takeover. After the Persians failed, the Persians left them to go back to their usual destructive fighting each other.
What were positives and negatives about fighting the Persian Wars?
The Persians wanted to bring the Greek city-states under control to stop their endless internal wars spilling over into and disrupting the Persian Empire. While some of the Greek cities were amenable to this, many resisted, and having driven back the Persians, went back to fighting each other with increasing frequency and devastation.
Who were the Greek fighting at the battle of marathon?
In 490 BC Greeks victoriously fought Persians in the Battle of Marathon in an attempt from King Darius I to subjugate Greece.
