What was the strategy used to win Persian War?

Answer 1

The Persians began with bribery and so often faced a divided enemy. They used their infantry as a base, and their superior cavalry to outflank and surround the Greek infantry. They used their navy to threaten the Greek cities so that they would keep their armies at home protecting them, and not come out an unite, leaving the cities open to defeat one by one.

The Greeks countered by forming alliances of city-states and concentrating first on destroying the Persian navy, which removed the threat to the cities and allowed their armies to assemble, and also left the Persians without the sea supply line on which they relied.

Answer 2

Persia:

Tried first to bribe the rulers of the Greek cities to join them. This succeded with some of the cities.

They then invaded the rest to bring them under their control. They threatened to invade the cities from the sea, which therefore kept their armies at home protecting their cities, which allowed the Persian army to pick them off one at a time.

Greek city-states:

Those who did not submit concentrated their navies to defeat the Persian fleet so that it could not threaten their cities. Wit the threat to their cities gonee, they could then concentrate their armies and defeat the land forces of the Persians and their Greek allies.

Outcome:

Persian forces advanced through Greece. More cities defected to them and Athens evacuated ther city. The Greek attempt on the Persian navy at Artemesion, to eliminate the amphibious threat, failed. They withdrew to Salamis to try again and won.

The Persians, unable to protect their supply fleet had to send half their army home for the winter.

The following spring, with no sea threat to the cities, the Greek cities were able to unite their armies at Plataia and defeat the depleted Persian army and its Greek allies. The Persians went home, and the remainder of their fleet, lurking at Mykale in Asia Minor, was captured.

Answer 3

The Persians used their fleet to threaten the Greek city-states so that they kept their armies defensively at home. This allowed the Persian army to pick the cities off one by one.

The Greeks determined to destroy the Persian fleet to prevent this and so get the Greek armies together to fight the Persian army. Loss of sea control would also end the sea supply line on which the Persians depended, and cause them to reduce the size of their army.

Answer 4

To first defeat the Persian navy which threatened the Greek cities and made them keep their armies defensively at home. It also exposed the Persian sea supply line, and the Persians had to send half their army home.

Then , with the sea threat eliminated, the cities could send out their armies to combine and defeat the Persian army, no halved in strength and no larger than the combined Greek force. This land force then kept to the hills to avoid the Persian cavalry, offering battle on broken ground where their superior armoured infantry was more than a match for the Persian unarmoured infantry.