Persia was ruled first by king Darius then King Xerxes. The Greek city-states were ruled by their aristocracies.
The Greek city-states were already fully developed by the time of those wars.
The Greek city-states were already fully developed by the time of those wars.
They spent 50 years of their time repelling the Persians.
Depends upon the time that they occurred. Ancient Persian Wars were significant during their times for the people that lived in those regions (like anywhere else). Therefore, which Persian War is in question?
499 to 449 BCE.
Western history would have moved on regardless of the Persian War. Had the Persians won the war, the elasticity of the Greek world would have thrown it off. Alexander the Great, inheritor of a Macedonia which was a vassal of Persia at the time of the Persian War, demonstrated this when he conquered the Persian Empire.
At the time of the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BCE) Israel was under control of the Persian Empire, and so in no position to intervene in any of the Greek wars, not that it would have had any reason to meddle in Greek affairs anyway.
The Persian Wars were wars fought between the Ancient Greek City States and the Achaemenid Persian Empire in around 490 B.C.E. There was no such thing as Iraq at that time, but Mesopotamia, the region of Iraq, was part of the Persian Empire and supplied soldiers and engineers for the Persian War Effort.If by "Persian War" you actually meant "the Persian Gulf War of 1990-1991", Iraq was a primary actor, invading and annexing the nearby principality of Kuwait until being forcefully ejected by a United Nations coalition led by the United States in the following year.
Were you talking about the Greek Persian and Peloponnesian Wars? If so, the Persian war was between the invading Persians and the defending Greeks, who formed a league in which the military was led by one of the Spartan kings. (Sparta had two kings at the same time.) In the Peloponnesian War, it was the Delian League (Athens and allies) vs. the Peloponnesian League (Sparta and allies) Sparta ended up beating Athens after destroying their fleet.
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.
Against the Persian invasion.
The league of Greek city-states, often referred to as the Delian League, was an alliance formed in 478 BCE after the Persian Wars. It was led by Athens and aimed to provide mutual defense against Persian aggression and to liberate Greek cities under Persian control. Member states contributed ships or money to a common treasury on the island of Delos. Over time, the league evolved into an Athenian empire, leading to tensions and conflicts with other city-states, particularly Sparta.