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In 499 BCE the Greek city-states in Asia Minor revolted against Persian rule. They were not rivals.
The Persians were not defeated by anyone in 499 BCE.
In 499 BCE the Greek city-states in Asia Minor revolted against Persian rule (Ionian Revolt) which the Persian provincial governor started to put down. It took him six years, but he won.
The armies and navies of two dozen southern Greek city-states, led at first by Sparta and later by Athens.
The Persians were not defeated by anyone in 499 BCE.
Miletus and the other Ionian cities banded together against the common enemy of Persia in 499 BC .
In 499 BCE a couple of hundred Greek city-states in Asia Minor revolted against Persian rule. It took the Persians seven years to put down the revolt and restore control through several battles.
In 499 BCE the Greek city-states in Asia Minor revolted against Persian rule. We call it the Ionian Revolt. It took the Persians six years to bring them under control. There were no rival armies however the Persians bribed some of the cities to defect at crucial battles making their reconquest easier.
In 499 BCE the Greek city-states in Asia Minor revolted against Persian rule, known today as the Ionian Revolt. It took the Persians six years to restore control, by bribery and military action. There were no rival armies opposing them, however some of the Ionian city-states defected at crucial battles.
Persia was attempting to bring Greece within its empire to bring peace to the Aegean Sea area. The southern Greek city-states resisted and were invaded. The Greek strategy was to first defeat the Persian navy which threatened the Greek cities and so forced them to keep their armies at home, and allowed the Persians to pick off the cities one at a time. So the Greek navy assembled at Salamis, where the Persians thought they had them cornered in the strait. However the Greek plan was to get the Persian fleet strung out entering the strait and defeat them while dispersed. It worked.
Xerxes plan to bring mainland Greece into his empire and appoint local rulers to keep it quiet. The first step was to bribe locals leaders to join him voluntarily. The remander he would conquer with their help. The military plan was to lead an army and fleet to conquer the remaining city-states. The navy threatened the cities who therefore kept their armies at homein defence, and so enabled his army to pick them off one at a time. The problem was that the Greek cities worked out a strategy to first defeat the Persian fleet, which would then allow them to concentrate their armies to defeat the Persian army. After a sea battle at Artemesion near Thermopylai Pass (which they held to force the Persians to try to outflank it by sea and so fight the Greek fleet) the Greek fleet tried again at Salamis and won, so the remnants of the Persian fleet had to withdraw to Asia Minor. The other problem was supply - Greece was a poor county and the Persian army had to be supplied by sea transports from Asia Minor, and needed the protection of the Persian fleet from the Greek fleet. When the Persian fleet withdrew, they could no longer supply their anmy, half of it had to go back to Asia Minor and the remainder back to central Greece for the winter. In the spring of the next year, the Greek cities, no longer threatened by the Persian navy, were able to concentrate their armies at Plataia and defeat the remaining half of the Persian army and its Greek allies. Simultaneously the Greek fleet eliminated the remaining Persian fleet at Mykale. Both sides had good strategies and plans. The Greeks fought better both on sea and land, and their strategy prevailed.
They worked together when the persians were attacking