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Much of the credit goes to the Greek navy which won the majority of sea-land battles, which kept the Persians on the defensive and brought them to agree to a peace after 50 years of fighting.
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∙ 6y agoIt was not 'the Greeks'. it was Athens and its ally Plataia.
This force had been hanging around in the hils around the plain of Marathon to avoid the Persian cavalry which would play havoc with them if it caught them in the open on flat ground. On the tenth day they saw the cavalry being embarked on the Persian fleet and seized the opportunity, running down and catching the inferior Persian infantry without its cavalry protection. Havig defeated them they rushed over to the ships to try to get them too, but they got away.
After seeing a signal from the hills to the departing ships, it came to them that something sinister was afoot - they guessed that the cavalry was being rowed around the cape to disembark near their city and gallop up to the gates which would be opened by a traitorous party inside.
So the 9,000 Athenian warriors ran over the hills 26 miles back to Athens and formed up in front of the city gates just as the Persian cavalry was being disembarked. Frustrated in their plan, the Persians went home.
This first marathon run was done by tough farmer-warriors carrying their armour and weapons and wearing sandals. Today's marathon runners, who commemorate this run, get it pretty easy by comparison.
And don't believe the story that Pheidippides did the first marathon run - he died of exhaustion two weeks earlier after running the 120 miles to Sparta and back to summon them to the battle. It was the whole Athenian army which did the first run.
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∙ 6y agoThey had no choice other than to unite to oppose a Persian takeover, or submit. However after the Persians gave up50 years later, the Greek city-states went happily back to fighting each other in devastating wars until the Macedonians under Alexander moved in and diverted them to taking over the Persian Empire.
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∙ 11y agoA superior navy made the Greeks able to sink much of the Persian fleet. The Athenians and the Spartans joined forced to defeat the Persians.
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∙ 11y agothe greeks had faith and trust in their skills which helped them hold off the persians but being outnumbered they were eventually deafeted
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∙ 14y agothey are great people
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Where was the Persian army helped by a greek traitor?
The battle of Thermopylae where Persian forces were able to use a little known mountain trail to outflank the Greeks during the battle .
What was important about that Battle of Marathon in 490 B.C.?
The Battle of Marathon was a turning point during the first Persian invasion of Greece. The Persians vastly outnumbered the Greeks on the battlefield, but the Greeks were able to defeat them. The Greeks charged the Persian troops with a thin weaker line, while the Greeks' left and right flanks consisted of stronger troops who quickly surrounded the Persian troops and attacked them on both sides. It was a crushing defeat for the Persians, and the battle convinced the Greeks that while the Persian Empire had vast armies and archers, it was possible to defeat them.
Why were the Greeks able to win the battle of marathon?
It was not the Greeks, it was Athens and its ally Plataia. The Athenians waited on the edge of the Plain of Marathon for reinforcement from Sparta. Then saw the superior Persian cavalry being embarked on ships and ran down and defeated the unsupported inferior Persian infantry.
Why were the Greeks able to defeat the Persians at the Plain of Marathon?
It was the Athenian and Plataian armies, which defeated the inferior Persian infantry caught without its cavalry support.
What was the battle strategy for the battle of thermopylae?
The overall Greek strategy was to thwart the Persian advance at the narrow pass of Thermopylae using a Spartan/Thespian/Theban blocking force , while at sea the Athenian Admiral Themistocles was to prevent Persian naval forces from outflanking the Greek land contingent by making an amphibious landing behind the Spartan King Leonidas and the Greeks . Themistocles was able to defeat the Persians at the sea battle of Salamis and the Greeks were able to withstand the Persian infantry assaults only to be outflanked on the land because the traitor Ephialtes had shown the Persians a way of outflanking the Greeks by showing the Persians a way around the pass of Thermopylae .h
Where was the Persian army helped by a greek traitor?
The battle of Thermopylae where Persian forces were able to use a little known mountain trail to outflank the Greeks during the battle .
What was important about that Battle of Marathon in 490 B.C.?
The Battle of Marathon was a turning point during the first Persian invasion of Greece. The Persians vastly outnumbered the Greeks on the battlefield, but the Greeks were able to defeat them. The Greeks charged the Persian troops with a thin weaker line, while the Greeks' left and right flanks consisted of stronger troops who quickly surrounded the Persian troops and attacked them on both sides. It was a crushing defeat for the Persians, and the battle convinced the Greeks that while the Persian Empire had vast armies and archers, it was possible to defeat them.
What was one major battle from the Persian Wars and the role geography played?
The Battle of Salamis was brought on by the Greeks in order to end the Persian amphibious threat to the Greek city-states. This threat made the cities keep their armies at home in self defence. The defeat of the Persian navy at Salamis ended that threat, and the cities were then able to send out their armies to unite and defeat the Persian army at Plataea, ending the Persian invasion.
Why were the Greeks able to hold the Persian Empire off?
theyre able because they had a bigger army and more supplies
What were the Greeks able to win the battle of salamis?
Control of the sea and blockade of the Persian sea resupply from Asia Minor.
Why were the Greeks able to win the battle of marathon?
It was not the Greeks, it was Athens and its ally Plataia. The Athenians waited on the edge of the Plain of Marathon for reinforcement from Sparta. Then saw the superior Persian cavalry being embarked on ships and ran down and defeated the unsupported inferior Persian infantry.
What united the Greek's in spite of divisions caused by geography and economic rivalry?
In the beginning of the 5th century BC, the Greeks had to unite against their common enemy, the Persians.
How did Alexander the Great succeed?
By an obsession for conquest and self aggrandisement, he was able to mobilise his Macedonians and the Greeks to join and stay with him for his conquest of the Persian Empire.
Why did Greeks need to set up new colonies during Persian war?
The Greeks were prolific breeders, which is why they established colonies all around the Mediterranean and Black Seas to provide for their excess population which could not be maintained in such a poor countryside as mainalnd Greece. The Persian War lasted spasmodically for fifty years, and the casualties in the war were no more able to absorb the excess population than had the normal internal wars before and after the Persian War. So the colonies continued to be established, then and later.
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.
Was the battle of Plataea turning point for the Greeks?
After destroying Persian sea power at the battle of Salamis, they were able to defeat their army, and so end the attempt by the Persians to incorporate the cities of mainland Greece into the Persian Empire.
Why was the death of darius and important to Alexander conquest of Persia?
It left the Persians with no legitimate king to unite opposition against his ongoing conquest of the Persian empire. He was then dealing with separate kingdoms and tribes.
