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The people of the Persian Empire provided the army and navy of the empire, including Egypt, Phoenicia and the Greek city-states of Ionia within the empire.
The Persians enlisted many of the Greek city-stated of mainland Greece to their side - by bribery and threat. At the decisive land battle of Plataia in 479 BCE, a third of the Persian army was provided by central Greek cities such as Thebes. Macedonia and Thessaly also fought as an ally of the Persians.
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What was the cause of war between Greece and the Persian Empire?
Greek city-states within the Persian Empire in Asia Minor were induced to revolt against Persian rule, and it expanded to include mainland Greece.
Who fought in the Persian and Peloponnesian Wars?
Persian War: a coalition of the southern Greek city-states versus an expeditionary force from Persia with its local Greek allies. Peloponnesian War: the Athenian league/empire versus a mainly Peloponnesian League led by Sparta.
What were the states of the Persian empire called?
satrapies
What angers the subjects if Persian Empire and caused them to rebel?
The Greek city-states in Asia Minor were tricked into revolt by the Greek tyrant of Miletus to protect himself against Persian retaliation for his misconduct.
What is satrapies?
the 20 states into which darius divided the Persian empire
The empire fought a ten year war with the Greek city-states?
The Persian Empire fought the Persian War against a couple of hundred Greek city-states over fifty years 499-449-BCE.
Who fought against whom in the Persian Wars?
The Greek city-states occupied by, or threatened by, expansion of the Persian Empire in the eastern Mediterranean littoral.
Who fought the Persian Wars?
The Persian Empire versus a varying coalition of Greek city-states.
What two places fought in the Persian Wars?
The Persian Empire and an alliance of Greek city-states.
Who fought in Persian war?
The Persian Empire versus coalitions of Greek city-states led first by Sparta, then by Athens.
Who fought during the Persian wars?
The Persian Empire and a couple of hundred of the city-states of the Greek world.
Which groups fought in the Persian war?
The Persian Empire versus varying combinations of Greek city-states.
Who was the victor at the end of the Persian Wars?
Athens, which turned the coalition of city-states it had led against the Persian Empire into an empire of its own.
What rival Greek city-states fought in the Peloponnesian and Persian Wars?
Sparta and Athens joined 20-odd other Greek city-states to oppose Persia. After that war,the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta fought the Peloponnesian War against the Athenian empire.
How did the greek-Persian war begin?
The Greek city-states in Asia Minor revolted against rule by the Persian Empire.
Did the Persian wars pit two city-states against each otherwho?
No, it pitted the Persian Empire against some of the Greek city-states in mainland Greece, the Islands and Asia Minor.
Who was fighting in the Second Persian War?
A league of a couple of dozen Greek city-states led by Sparta against the Persian Empire.
