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In 490 BCE in the Plain of Marathon and the same day before the walls of Athens.
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What are the two greek city-states that tried to stop Philip the seconds invasion?
Thebes and Athens raised a small army to stop the invasion.
How did the battle of marathon finish?
With the Athenians defeating the Persian infantry, the Persian cavalry being rowed around to Athens, and the Athenian army then running back to Athens to stop them taking the city in their absence.
What saw a united Athens and Sparta against an Asian?
The Persian attempt to appoint a Persian governor of mainland Greece to stop Greek interference in the Greek city-states within the Persian Empire in Asia Minor.
What caused the battle of Marathon?
Persia sent an expedition to Athens to reinstal an Athenian ex-tyrant to stop it causing trouble within the Persian Empire. The expeditionary force fought it out with the Athenian army on the Plain of Marathon. The Persians lost.
How did action by Athens bring about the Persian Wars?
Athens supported the Ionian revolt by Greek city-states in Asia Minor against Persian rule. A reprisal raid by Persia was defeated by Athens, and the Persians decided to bring all the Greek cities under its control to stop uprisings disturbing peace and prosperity in its Empire, and invaded the Greek cities in eastern Europe.
Was the Persian marathon war on sea or land?
It arose from a Persian amphibious force which tried to capture Athens and put it under an Athenian tyrant to stop it interfering in the Persian Empire elsewhere. The force landed on the Marathon plain with the Athenian army lurking in the hills waiting for reinforcement from Sparta. When the Athenians saw the Persian cavalry being re-embarked, they dashed down and defeated the inferior Persian infantry. Then they woke up to the fact that the Persian cavalry was being shipped around to Athens to take the city in their absence, so they ran back over the hills the 26 miles to Athens to protect the city, getting there just as the Persian cavalry was disembarking. The Persians went home.
Why did the Persians choose to invade the Peloponnesian Peninsula under Darius in 490 BC?
They did not invade the Peloponnesian Peninsula, the had a specific target of the two Ionian cities of Eretria and Athens which had been in an expedition which had burnt down its provincial capital of Asia Minor. The object was to establish local tyrants to govern the cities and stop them interfering in the Persian Empire. They got Eretria but lost against Athens at Marathon. This led to a lated Persian invasion ten years later to bring all of mainland Greece within its empire to bring stability to the area.
What was the battle of marathon?
A battle fought by Athens, with support by its ally Plataia, to repel a Persian expeditionary force sent to restore its ex-tyrant Hippias whom the Persians wanted to take over rulership of Athens again to stop them interfering within the Persian Empire by supporting revolutions by Greek cities within the empire.
Was the battle of Salamis before of after the Persian Empire?
The Battle of Salamis involved the Persian Empire - it was part of the invasion led by King Xerxes to try to bring the Greek city-states under control to stop their internecine warring spilling over into his empire.
Why did ancient people built the great wall of China?
They wanted to stop the Invasion from their enemies
What consequence did the Persian suffer after the battle of marathon?
The Persian punitive expedition against Athens went home. Persia then decided to bring all the Greek city-states in mainland Greece within its empire to stop them supporting rebellions in Asia Minor. It mounted a full scale invasion ten years later, which was repelled by a combination of the southern Greek cities. This too was repelled, and then after thirty years of further warfare Persia gave up and a peace was agreed.
Did Vasco Da Gama stop a Muslim invasion?
no,because he didnt like to hurt people
