Armies, fleets, traders, messengers, tourists.
The Persian Empire on one side, and the southern Greek city-states on the other.
it was a huge empire on the time of Alexander the greate. it was on the coast on the oposit side of grese. (to the East).
The war was between the Persian Empire and various alliances of Greek city-states 499 to 449 BCE. Pick which side is yours.
On one side, the persian Empire. On the othr, a group of Greek city-states of varying numbers during the 50 years of the war, varying from 20 to 180.
On tthe Persian side, the Persian king. On the Greek side, first Sparta, then Athens.
The Ionian Greek city-states within the Persian Empire revolted against Persian rule. mainland city-states Eretria and Athens intervened on their side, causing Persia to decide to take control of all the Greek city-states in order to prevent further disruption of peace and prosperity within their empire.
Some of the Greek city-states were within the Persian Empire in Asia Minor and the Islands. These cities were restive, and some of their mother cities in mainland Greece intervened on their side. Persia decided that the best way to end this was to bring those cities within the Empire where they could be controlled, and so put an end to disruption of the Empire.
The people of the Persian Empire provided the army and navy of the empire, including Egypt, Phoenicia and the Greek city-states of Ionia within the empire. The Persians enlisted many of the Greek city-stated of mainland Greece to their side - by bribery and threat. At the decisive land battle of Plataia in 479 BCE, a third of the Persian army was provided by central Greek cities such as Thebes. Macedonia and Thessaly also fought as an ally of the Persians.
NO. Somalia sits on the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean. The Persian Gulf is on the other side of the Arabian Peninsula from the Gulf of Aden.
Well yes - they were on one side, the Persians on the other.
A contest between Sparta and its allies and Athens and its empire 431-404 BCE, which caused great devastation throughout the Hellenic world from Sicily to Asia Minor. The Spartan side, with Persian financial backing, overcame the Athenian side and Athens was divested of its empire.
Iran borders the Persian Gulf on the north side.