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Where did the Greeks defeat the Persians in the first invasion?
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Marathon - it was the Athenians.
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What was important about that Battle of Marathon in 490 B.C.?
The Battle of Marathon was a turning point during the first Persian invasion of Greece. The Persians vastly outnumbered the Greeks on the battlefield, but the Greeks were able to defeat them. The Greeks charged the Persian troops with a thin weaker line, while the Greeks' left and right flanks consisted of stronger troops who quickly surrounded the Persian troops and attacked them on both sides. It was a crushing defeat for the Persians, and the battle convinced the Greeks that while the Persian Empire had vast armies and archers, it was possible to defeat them.
The first invasion of rome from the east were from?
the Persians
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.
What was the name first battle in which the Greeks defeated the Persians?
Salamis.
Did the Greeks attack first in the battle of marathon?
Greeks could have attacked before the Persians but a lot of the evidence points to the Persians attacking first, the Persians were most likely to have fought when they got off their boats and when they encountered in the valley, but, the Greeks were to have probably ran away into the valley than to have been chased.
What was the deciding battle during the first invasion of Greece by the Persians?
Marathon.
Why were the Greeks defeated in thermopylae?
A few reasons, First, the Greeks had 7,000 men and the Persians had 15,000 Second, the Greeks fought the Persian Immortals which were histories most elite and powerful warriors. Third, the Persians found a route to outflank the Greeks.
Why were Greeks able defeat persions plain marathon?
Because the Persians didn't have patience and sent the horsemen in first and the strongest in the boat leaving their weakest variable to Greek attack. The Greeks won even though they were outnumbered, because of the general's mistake of not waiting for the Greeks to come to the Persian forces.
What was the Persians Empire army's first major defeat?
The battle of Marathon 490 BCE.
Who attacked Thermopylae first?
The Greeks defended, the Persians attacked to get through the pass into southern Greece.
Why is the battle of Marathon so important?
The Athenian and Plataean armies defeat of the Persian expeditionary force convinced other Greek city-states that they could hold off Persian attempts to dominate them.
Why were the Persians their own cause of defeat by the Greeks in the Persin war II?
First define Persian War II. The Persian War ran 499-449 BCE - it had several phases - Ionian Revolt, Persian punitive expedition against Eretria and Athens, Persian invasion of mainland Greece, Greek counter-offensive. Which among this are supposed to be 'Second Persian War', 'Second Persian War' and 'Third Persian War'?
