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The Greek cities in mainland Greece were interfering in the Persian Empire. Persia decided that the only way to stop this was to take over the cities and appoint tyrants to keep them quiet. Some of the cities agreed, but the southern cities resisted so Persia invaded. The Persians lost several battles and eventually gave up after 50 years and left the Greek cities to get back to their warfare amongst each other.

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