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The Persians were not seafarers, and relied on other ethnics within their empire to provide their navy and trading fleet. The Greeks within their empire in Asia Minor and the Islands provided a significant part of this shipping and fighters which supported Persian security and prosperity.
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Who was the Persian leader defeated by the Greeks?
The Persian leader defeated by the Greeks was Darius.
What island did the Greeks sink half the Persians?
The Greeks sank half the Persian fleet off the coast of Salamis.
Why were the Greeks able to defeat the Persians?
They adopted a superior strategy of first defeating the Persian navy, and cutting off their sea supply line. The Persians had to send half their army home for the winter, and the Greeks united the city-state armies to defeat the depleted Persian army.
The small Greek navy defeated the Persian fleet at the battle of what?
The combined and powerful Greek navy defeated a similar sized Persian fleet at the battle of Salamis.
What caused the Greeks to unite?
Threat of annihilation by the Persian invasion
How where the Greeks victoriouns at salamis?
They attacked the Persian navy when it was divided and not in optimal battle formation.
Who won in the thermomopylaen war?
It was the Battle of Thermopylae in the Second Persian War. The Greeks won. Shortly after Thermopylae the Athenian Navy defeated the Persian Navy at Salamis, and in the next year the Persian Army was defeated by a combined Greek Army at Plataea.
What was defeated by the Greeks at the bay of salamis?
The Persian navy comprising Phoenician, Asian-Greek and Egyptian fleets.
Which factors enabled the Greeks to win the 3rd Persian war?
During the Persian invasion of mainland Greece, the Greeks destroyed the Persian navy, and in the third phase of the 50-year war, their navy dominated the seas, enabling them to win the sea-land operation against Persia for the next 30 years until the Persians gave up and agreed to peace.
Who was the Persian leader defeated by the Greeks?
The Persian leader defeated by the Greeks was Darius.
Who did the ancient Greeks fight in the Persian wars?
The Persians attacked the Greeks in the Persian war
How did they Persian wars make the Greeks feel about themselves?
The Greeks prevailing over Persian expansionism gave to the Greeks confidence in their military arms to defeat Persian armies/navies .
Who were the Greeks fighting with in the Persian war?
The Persian Empire.
What is the background info for the battle of salamis?
Persia invaded Greece. The southern Greeks decided that if they could defeat the Persian fleet, the invasion would be exposed to defeat on land and could not be fed in such a poor country in winter. The defeat of the Persian navy at Salamis resulted in the withdrawal of half the Persian army and its subsequent defeat the following year when the Greeks assembled at Platia.
What island did the Greeks sink half the Persians?
The Greeks sank half the Persian fleet off the coast of Salamis.
Who was being invaded during the Persian war?
the Greeks and the Greeks lost
Why was the pass of Thermopylae so important?
Its blocking of the pass was designed to precipitate a sea battle to defeat the Persian navy. Unfortunately for the Greeks their fleet lost, and the force at the pass was withdrawn.
