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The battle of Thermopylae where Persian forces were able to use a little known mountain trail to outflank the Greeks during the battle .
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Which Greek city states defeated the Persian army in a major Battle?
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What was the action in the Plataea battle?
A coalition of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army and its Greek allies outside the Greek city of Plataea in 479 BCE. The defending Greek army of armoured foot soldiers kept to the rough ground to negate the Persian cavalry, then engaged and defeated the unarmoured Persian infantry. At the same time a Greek fleet swooped on the remnants of the Persian fleet at Mycale and captured it. This combined action ended the invasion of mainland Greece by the Persian king Xerxes.
Who was in the Trojan horse?
Greek warriors tasked with opening Troy's gates to let in the Greek army when the Persian victory party subsided.
How could the small Greek city-states defeat the huge Persian Empire?
They banded together as a cohesive force, producing a combined navy which outmanoeuvred and defeated the Persian navy; and then without the threat of naval attacks on their cities, they were able so send out their armies to combine and defeat the Persian army. The Persian army was also weakened as, after losing the ability of their navy to protect their resupply fleet coming from Asia, they then had to send half their army home as they could not feed it, and this evened up the size of the opposing armies. And the Greek army had armoured warriors which outclassed the unarmoured soldiers of the Persian army. It all hung on the elimination of the Persian fleet at Salamis.
What part of the Persian Empire did Alexander attack first?
He entered into Asia Minor and destroyed the Persian provincial army there at the battle of Granicus,, and executed the Greek mercenaries in Persian service to discourage Greeks joining the Persian army and providing them with the armoured infantry they desperately needed to stand up to Alexander's armoured forces.
Location where Persian army was helped by a Greek traitor?
Thermopylae , Greece
Where did the Persian army head after it defeated the Greek force?
After defeating the Greek navies at Artemesium, the Persian army moved to Athens and occupied it.
When did the Greek army crush the Persian army at Plataea?
479 BCE.
Who were the armies in the Persian war?
The Persian army, and the armies of the Greek city-states.
Who were the armies in the Persian Wars?
The Persian army, and the armies of the Greek city-states.
What did a unified Greek army accomplish in 479 BC?
The southern Greek city-states assembled their army at Plataia and defeated the Persian army and its central Greek allies. Simultaneously the Greek coalition fleet cornered the remnants of the Persian fleet where it had taken refuge at Mycale in Asia Minor. This ended the Persian invasion and temporarily liberated the Greek city-states in Asia Minor from Persian control.
How did the greek army succsessfully defeat the Persians?
Most of the Persian defeats in the 50 years of warfare between the Greek city-states and Persia were either sea or sea-land battles, not land battles involving just the army. The single land battle of Plataia in 469 BCE was won by the Greek forces sticking defeating the inferior unsupported Persian infantry.
What date was the Persian army beaten by the Greeks at Thermopyale?
The small Greek force at Thermopylae was defeated by the Persian army in 480 BCE.
How was the Persian war won?
By the Greek city-states combining to defeat the Persian army and navy.
Who won in the invasion during the Persian war?
A coalition of southern Greek city-states defeated the invading Persian army and its Greek allies.
How did the Spartans lead that helped the Athenians defeat the Persians?
When Xerxes's army invaded Greece, the army had to go through a mountain pass called Thermopylae. The Greek army consisted of 4,000 soldiers. For seven days, the Greeks held back the Persians, and the last three of those days were full on battle. However, a Greek traitor told the Persians of a way to pass around the Greeks. When King Leonidas of Sparta, who was the leader of the Greek army, found out that they were to be surrounded, he dismissed most of the army, remaining to defend the pass with only 300 Spartans, 400 Thebans, and 700 Thespians, and perhaps a few hundred others. Nearly all of those who stayed back were killed by the Persian army, but they helped to delay the Persian army and give the retreating Greeks enough time to escape. Whether the actions of Leonidas and the Spartans helped in Athens's final victory at Salamis I don't know, but he and his brave army did save the lives of thousands of Greeks.
What did the Persian army demand from greek cities to signify surrender?
Earth and water.
