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What differences were between the Persian and greek civilization?
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The persians had pledged their allegiance to their king and obeyed their ruler where the greeks had a democratice government and the people had a say in things.
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∙ 6y agoPersians believed in an all-powerful king, but many Greeks believed that citizens should choose their own rulers.
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Creation, expansion, and interaction of political systems
Who freed the Greek cities in Asia Minor from Persian rule?
After a coalition of Greek cities led by Sparta repelled a Persian attempt to incorporate them into its empire, Athens took over leadership of a coalition of Greek city-states in Asia Minor which continued sporadic warfare against Persia. After 30 years of trying to impose peace by force, the Persians gave up and left the 180 cities to resume the usual fighting amongst each other.
Which Persian leader invaded Greece with 200000 soldiers in 480 B.C.?
The second Persian invasion of Greece (480-479 BC) occurred during the Greco-Persian Wars, as King Xerxes I of Persia sought to conquer all of Greece. The invasion was a direct, if delayed, response to the defeat of the first Persian invasion of Greece (492-490 BC) at the Battle of Marathon which ended Darius I's attempts to subjugate Greece. After Darius's death, his son Xerxes spent several years planning for the second invasion, mustering an enormous army and navy. The Athenians andSpartans led the Greek resistance, with some 70 city-states joining the 'Allied' effort. However, most of the Greek cities remained neutral or submitted to Xerxes. The invasion began in spring 480 BC, when the Persian army crossed the Hellespontand marched through Thrace and Macedon to Thessaly. The Persian advance was blocked at the pass of Thermopylae by a small Allied force under King Leonidas I of Sparta; simultaneously, the Persian fleet was blocked by an Allied fleet at the straits of Artemisium. At the famous Battle of Thermopylae, the Allied army held back the Persian army for seven days, before they were outflanked by a mountain path and the Allied rearguard was trapped in the pass and annihilated. The Allied fleet had also withstood two days of Persian attacks at the Battle of Artemisium, but when news reached them of the disaster at Thermopylae, they withdrew to Salamis. After Thermopylae, all of Boeotia and Attica fell to the Persian army, who captured and burnt Athens. However, a larger Allied army fortified the narrow Isthmus of Corinth, protecting the Peloponnesus from Persian conquest. Both sides thus sought out a naval victory which might decisively alter the course of the war. The Athenian general Themistocles succeeded in luring the Persian navy into the narrow Straits of Salamis, where the huge number of Persian ships became disorganised, and were soundly beaten by the Allied fleet. The Allied victory at Salamis prevented a quick conclusion to the invasion, and fearing becoming trapped in Europe, Xerxes retreated to Asia leaving his general Mardonius to finish the conquest with the elite of the army. The following Spring, the Allies assembled the largest ever hoplite army, and marched north from the isthmus to confront Mardonius. At the ensuing Battle of Plataea, the Greek infantry again proved its superiority, inflicting a severe defeat on the Persians, killing Mardonius in the process. On the same day, across the Aegean Sea an Allied navy destroyed the remnants of the Persian navy at the Battle of Mycale. With this double defeat, the invasion was ended, and Persian power in the Aegean severely dented. The Greeks would now move over to the offensive, eventually expelling the Persians from Europe, the Aegean islands and Ionia before the war finally came to an end in 479 BC.
How was maurya empire formed?
through in faith in Buddhism through in faith in Buddhism
What is a sankirt?
Sanskrit is an early and extinct language of the Indo-European family that includes most of the languages of Europe as well as ancient Latin and Greek, Slavonic languages like Russian and Serbo-Croat, and some common languages of north India such as Hindi and Gujrati, also Persian, Albanian and Armenian.
What was one similarity between the religious practices of the Persian Empire and those of Greek civilization?
Both the Persian Empire and Greek civilization had multiple gods responsible for different aspects of human life.
What was one similarity between the religious practices of the Persian empire and those Greek civilizations?
Both the Persian Empire and Greek civilization had multiple gods responsible for different aspects of human life.
What was one similarity between the religious practices of the Persian empire and those of the Greek civilizations?
Both the Persian Empire and Greek civilization had multiple gods responsible for different aspects of human life.
What civilization was involved in the Persian War?
The Persian Empire and the eastern Greek city-states.
The Hellenistic civilization was a blend of these cultures?
Persian, Egyptian, Indian, and Greek.
What are the differences between the Persian Wars and the Peloponnesian War?
For the Greeks, the Persian War was warding off Persian dominance. The Peloponnesian War was a protracted fight to terminate the Athenian Empire's attempt to dominate the other Greek city-states.
Which civilization contributed the most to the development of Greek civilization A Chinese B Mycenaean C Persian D Megalith builders?
Mycenaean
What was one similarity between the religious practices of the Persian Empire and those of the Greek civilization?
Both civilizations included people who worshipped many different gods
How did Persian civilization interact with Greek civilization?
The expanding Persian Empire took over the Greek city-states in Asia Minor. Their policy was to allow local cultures to continue, simply appointing a Persian governor to provide internal and external security, collect taxes and improve infrastructure to improve prosperity.
What was one similarity between the religious practice of the Persian empire and those of the Greek civilization?
They had multiple deities who covered the spectrum of human activities. We are more economical today.
Why was it called the Persian War?
It was between an alliance of Greek city-states and the Persian Empire. Today we call it the Persian War to differentiate it from the wars between the Greek city-states. It is often called the Greco-Persian War.
What 3 civilizations influenced the greek civilization?
Minoan, Achaean, Egyptian, Persian.
