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Why the could the Persians not defeat the Greeks or Macedonians?
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The Persian infantry was unarmoured and could not stand up to Greek and Macedonian infantry formations, particularly after both raised cavalry forces to match those of the Persians.
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Who was the Oracle at Delphi?
someone who told the Greeks to stand their ground so they could defeat the Persians at Thermopylae.
The oracle at delphi was?
someone who told the Greeks to stand their ground so they could defeat the Persians at Thermopylae.
How could the battle of salamis have been avoided?
By the Persians not invading Greece. By the Greeks surrendering to the Persians without a battle.
Did the Greeks attack first in the battle of marathon?
Greeks could have attacked before the Persians but a lot of the evidence points to the Persians attacking first, the Persians were most likely to have fought when they got off their boats and when they encountered in the valley, but, the Greeks were to have probably ran away into the valley than to have been chased.
Who helped Sparta defeat Athens in the Peloponnesian Wars?
the macedonians of course... No, not the Macedonians. Sparta had many cities aligned in a league to defeat Athens, and some had formerly been Athenian allies who turned their coats because Athens treated them too harshly. Also, Sparta later formed an alliance with an old enemy, Persia, which continued to meddle in Greek affairs after their defeat by Sparta and Athens many years earlier. Persia gave Sparta money for a fleet. nobody helped them Yes, somebody helped them. They could not have done it without help, especially from the Persians and the Syracusans. Read the history.
How was it possible that Alexander the Great Defeated the Persian army since the Persians hugely outnumbered the Macedonians?
1. The Persians were unable to match the Macedonian phalanx.2. Alexander had a strong cavalry arm to match the Persians' cavalrt and used light infantry to maintain a link between cavalry and phalanx so the the Persians could not turn the flanks of the phalanx.3 it was a superior combination.
What was Persians plan for attack on Greece?
the plan was to get as much men as the could get and just come together and go against the greeks.
Why did Persians lose the battle of salamis?
After the western Greek citiy-states led by Sparta had defeated the Persian navy at Salamis, the Persians could not feed their army during the oncoming winter and had to send half of it home. The remaining half, with 40,000 Greek allies, was therefore now about the same size as the southern Greek alliance of city-states. The difference was that the Persians had strong cavalry but unarmoured infantry. The Persian infantry could not stand up to the Greek armoured infantry and relied on their cavalry to harass the Greeks. So the Greeks selected Plataea as the right place where they could fight over broken ground where the Persian cavalry could not get at them. The result was the defeat of the Persian army.
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.
How were the Greeks finally defeated?
Do you mean when they were conquered by the Romans at the battle of Corinth in 146 BC? Or are you counting their defeat by Philip of Macedon at the Battle of Chaeronea in 338 BC? Since the Macedonians spoke the same language, they could be called Greeks. That would mean Alexander's successor kingdoms were Greek and were defeated by Rome one by one. The last one to hold out was Egypt. Cleopatra was defeated by Augustus at the Battle of Actium in 31 BC.
What helped the Greeks defeat the Persains?
The primary factor was thee destruction of the Persian fleet at the Battle of Salamis. The Greeks thus established dominance of the sea. and the Persians could not import enough food by sea, and had to send half their army home. They also could no longer threaten the southern Greek cities with amphibious invasion, which had made those cities keep their armies defensively at home, so the cities were now able to send out their armies the following year to unite and defeat the Persian army at Plataea.
By the 350s BCE which city-state's endless war making and collaboration with the Persians had so weakened the Greeks that they could not fend off the Macedonians?
It oversimplifies Greek city-state politics to centre the problems on eg Athens. The centurie-old inter-city wars and changing alignments culminated in their being unable to provide a cohesive opposition to Macedonia. All shared responsibility for this.
