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Why did the Persian empire end?
It ended because many Persians converted to islam
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 event occurred near the end of the Persian Wars?
In 450 BCE, after nearly 50 years, the Persians lost a sea-land battle of Cyprus, forcing the Persians to accept peace the following year.
Why did the very different cultures of Athens and Sparta from an alliance?
They formed an alliance because they wanted to rebel against the Persians. Athens had all the brains and Sparta had all the war like abilities. Athens needed someone that was good in war. Even though Athens had a strong army it was still too small to over ride the Persian Empire. The Persians were a common enemy for Athens and Sparta. They both had something in common; liking the Persians. So the more people Athens had in their army the more likely it is for Athens to win. In the end Athens does win the war against the Persians but there are many more wars the Athenians and the Persians have had against each other.
Why was battle of plataea a turning point for the Greeks?
After destroying Persian sea power at the battle of Salamis, they were able to defeat their army, and so end the attempt by the Persians to incorporate the cities of mainland Greece into the Persian Empire.
Was the battle of Plataea turning point for the Greeks?
After destroying Persian sea power at the battle of Salamis, they were able to defeat their army, and so end the attempt by the Persians to incorporate the cities of mainland Greece into the Persian Empire.
What happened during the battle of Marathon?
The Greeks defeated the Persians through superior arms and tactics . The Greeks were under joint command of Miltiades and Callimachus . The defeat of Persian forces marked the end of the 1st Persian invasion of Greece .
What happened during the marathon battle?
The Greeks defeated the Persians through superior arms and tactics . The Greeks were under joint command of Miltiades and Callimachus . The defeat of Persian forces marked the end of the 1st Persian invasion of Greece .
Why did the Persians lose the war with Sparta?
The Persians did not have a war with Sparta. They invaded mainland Greece to put an end to their interference in supporting uprisings of Greek cities in Persian-ruled Asia. They were repelled by a coalition of city-states from southern Greece, of which Sparta was but one.
How did the battle of Plataea end the threat from the Persian Empire forever?
It helped end the Persian invasion, together with Salamis and Mycale. However the Persian War went on for another 30 years. And the Persians regained the territory it lost later as the Greeks paralysed themselves fighting each other, Persia took back control of its territories in Asia Minor.
Why did the greek tyranny lose power?
At the end of the Classical period, around 360 B.C., the Greek city-states were weak and disorganized from two centuries of warfare. (First the Athenians fought with the Persians; then the Spartans fought with the Athenians; then the Spartans and the Athenians fought with one another and with the Thebans and the Persians.) All this fighting made it easy for another, previously unexceptional city-state to rise to power.
What happened To the Greeks attitude about themselves after defeating Persians?
The Spartans proposed bringing the Greeks in Asia Minir and the Islands back to mainland Greece to end the perpetual problems of those cities continually uprising against their Persian rulers and causing ongoing warfare. The Athenians wanted to unify the Greek cities into an anti-Persian alliance. The latter prevailed. As a result Sparta withdrew from the scene, and Athens consolidated the alliance, dominating it and eventually developing it into what some call an Athenian empire.
