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Where is Milesia from Ancient Greece located?
Milesia can be found in eastern Greece
Why did Greeks use ships for trade?
The Greeks used ships because, in ancient times, moving things across land would have been risky (it was easier to attack wagons/carts than it was to attack a ship). Also, Greece borders the Mediterranean Sea so it would be more practical to cut through the sea when going to places such as Egypt or the Middle East.
What were the accomplishments of Cyrus the Great?
The raised the Persians from being subsidiary to the Medes into an empire stretching through the Middle East to Central Asia.
What were the countries of Persia?
Persians are 40% of the population of nowadays Iran and 60% of the populations are not Persian. They are Turk (40%), Kurds, Arabs, Balouchs, Torkmans, and Lurs. Persians have lived in east nowadays called Iran and Afghanistan and to some extend Tajikistan.
What is the name of a mountain in north east Greece famous in mythology?
Mt. Olympus
Where the Persians more or less civilized than the greeks?
The Middle East, in what is now Iran. That is where the Persians lived. At different times they were more and also less civilised than the Greeks.
Did the Persians take over the Greeks from the east?
They incorporated the Greek cities in Asia Minor and the Islands into their empire. The mother cities in mainland Greece interfered on the side of these cities against the Persians who decided to bring those mainland cities within the em pire to create an ethnic frontier. This attempt failed.
What did the Persians of the sixth century BC name the ancient Macedonians and what did it mean?
Yauna Takabara East Greeks. **Takabara refers to the flat sun hat that was worn in Macedonia so it translates to Greeks with flat sunhats.
Was Greece under Persian control?
The Greek world was spread around the entire Mediterranean and Black Sea littorals as independent city-states. The Persian Empire absorbed the ones in the east, including Asia Minor, northern mainland Greece and the Islands. This remained to varying degrees for two hundred years until the Macedonian Alexander the Great captured the Persian Empire in the latter part of the 4th Century BCE.
Where was the Battle of Thermopylae fought?
At Thermopylai (Hot Springs), a pass on the east coast of Greece opposite the strait between the maniland and the island of Euboia, just south of the Malian Gulf. The Battle of Thermopylae, 480 BC , was fought at Thermopylai , Greece . ~ See related link below .
What are five ethnic groups of the middle east region?
Arabs, Turks, Persians, Jews, Kurds, Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriacs, Armenians, Azeris, Circassians, Greeks and Georgians
Where are Persians located in the Middle East?
Most Persians live in Iran.
Which two groups have fought over the same land in the middle east?
The area of Palestine and Israel has been fought over by many groups. In ancient times it was fought over by Egyptians and Assyrians, Egyptians and Hittites, Hebrews and Canaanites, Hebrews and Babylonians, Hebrews and Persians, Persians and Greeks, The Ptolemaic Egyptian empire and the Seleucid Empire, and Romans and Persians. During the Middle Ages, the Byzantines and Arabs fought over the area. Later, the area was fought over by European Christian Crusaders and various Muslim groups. The last of these Muslims were the Ottoman Empire, which controlled the area until the 20th century. During the First World War, the Ottomans fought on the side of the Central Powers, and the area of Palestine and Israel was taken over by the Allies. Since the Second World War, it has been disputed by Israelis and Arabs through a series of wars, with the most heavily invested Arab group being the native Palestinians.
What made Alexander the Great attached to war?
he fought in war he was from macedonia (north of greece) and conquered egypt, middle east and reached india.
Where was the battle of mar thon fought?
The Athenian army defeated the Persian invaders near the Bay of Marathon on the east coast of mainland Greece.
The first invasion of rome from the east were from?
the Persians
What continent is to the east of Greece?
The continent of Asia is east of Greece.
