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Why did the Persian Empire want to punish the Greek city-states?
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When the Greek city-states in Asia Minor revolted against foreign Persian rule, Eretria and Athens from mainland Greece sent military expeditions to help them. In the process, they burnt down the Persian provincial capital of Sardis and destroyed the statues of the gods. Persia mounted a raid in reprisal to punish the two cities and put them under local tyrants to keep them under control in the future, and as a warning to the other mainland Greek cities not to interfere in Asia. Eretria was captured, but the expedition was turned back by the Athenians and their Plataean allies at the battle of Marathon.
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What two places fought in the Persian Wars?
The Persian Empire and an alliance of Greek city-states.
Who was the Persian king crushed a Greek revolt and sought to punish Athens for her part in the rebellion?
King Darius the Great who put down a revolt by the Ionian Greek cities within his empire. His attempt to subdue Athens was turned back at the battle of Marathon.
In 480 bc who was the Greek's enemy?
A coalition of southern Greek city-states defeated a Persian fleet of Phoenician, Greek and Egyptian ships at the naval battle of Salamis.
What was the name of the Greek that conquered the Persian Empire?
Alexander the Great of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia in the northern Greek peninsula.
Greek who comquered asia minor and the persian empire?
It was a Macedonian - Alexander the Great.
What Greek conquered Asia Minor and the Persian Empire?
It was not a Greek who conquered Asia Minor and the Persian Empire, it was the Macedonian king Alexander the Great
Persian vs Greek?
The conflict led to ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia's takeover of the Persian Empire.
Who fought in Persian war?
The Persian Empire versus coalitions of Greek city-states led first by Sparta, then by Athens.
What was the empire after the Persian Empire?
The Macedonian Greek Empire of Alexander the Great conquered the Persian Empire and incorporated all of its lands.
Who fight in the Persian war?
The Persian Empire and a coalition of Greek city-states.
Which groups fought in the Persian war?
The Persian Empire versus varying combinations of Greek city-states.
Who fought against whom in the Persian Wars?
The Greek city-states occupied by, or threatened by, expansion of the Persian Empire in the eastern Mediterranean littoral.
Who extended the Greek empire into the Persian Empire all the way to India?
There was no Greek empire - the Greek world was a collection of over 2,000 independent city-states. King Alexander of Macedonia took controp of the mainland Greek cities, then invaded the Persian Empire and took it over.
Who won the war between Greek and the Persian empire?
me!
Who was expected to win the Persian war?
The Persian thought the Persian Empire. The coalitions of Greek city-states thought the coalitions of Greek city-states.
Which Persian empire was defeated by Greek forces at the battle of Marathon?
The Achaemenid Empire.
What civilization was involved in the Persian War?
The Persian Empire and the eastern Greek city-states.
