The western Persian Empire incorporated a couple of hundred Greek cities, which were restive and sought help from their mother cities in mainland Greece. This interference disrupted peace in the Empire, and while Persia had determined to set its eastern boundary on the Aegean Sea, this external disruption prsuaded it to extend the boundary to incorporate the Greek cities in mainland Greece to establish an ethnic frontier.
War ensued.
The Persian Empire.
The main enemy of the Greeks is Persia.
Persia.The Persian Empire.
A coalition of southern Greek city-states defeated a Persian fleet of Phoenician, Greek and Egyptian ships at the naval battle of Salamis.
With no external enemy, the Greek city-states went back to their usual occupation of fighting each other. Tese ongoing wars left the Greek city-states so weakened that Macedonia was able to rise to dominance, then take over the Persian Empire.
Alexander the Greats goals were to expand his empire as far as he could and to conquer all enemies he came across. He was very successful, he conquered his major enemy, the Persian empire, and any other enemy in his path. He also expanded his empire all the way to the Indus river in India.
They were all part of the Persian attempt to subdue troubles to its empire from the city-states of mainland Greece.
The Syrian-Greeks (also called the Seleucid Empire). They were led by King Antiochus IV.Answer:Also the Hellenizers, who sold out their religious compatriots to the enemy.
The Persian ships were larger and relied on closing to enemy ships to board. The Greek ships were lighter and more manoeuverable, and relied on ramming and sinking the opposition.
Alexander tried to impose Greek culture on the empire after he took it over. After his death his generals divided the empire up and established what we call today the Hellenistic Kingdoms based on Greek culture. This culture was limited to the upper class, but established centres of learning in some centres such as Alexandria.
The worst enemy of Ancient Egypt were the Greeks.
Macedonians