Why did king Darius become angry with the Greeks?

Answer 1

When the Ionian Greek cities in Asia Minor revolted, he put down the revolt in a 7 year operation, and installed local Greek tyrants to keep them under control.

The revolt was supported from mainland Greece by Eretria and Athens who sent contingents to help. These were involved in an expedition which burnt down the Persian provincial capital Sardis, and destroyed the gods in the city.

Persia resolved to punish this and sent an amphibious force to capture them and install locals as tyrants, again to keep them quiet in the future. When this expedition was defeated at Marathon, the Persian king decided to get control of mainland Greece to keep them all quiet. This was done by gaining control of the cities in central Greece by bribery, then a major expedition was mounted to capture the southern cities.

This invasion failed at the battles of Salamis, Plataia and Mycale. The fighting went on for a further 20 years, until the Persians got tired of this and agreed to leave the Greeks alone to continue their usual fighting amongst each other.

So after 50 years of warfare, neither Greeks nor Persians had any love for each other.

Answer 2

The Greek city-states of Asia Minor revolted, and the mainland Greek city-states of Eretria and Athens sent forces to help them. They led an expedition in 498 BCE to the Persian provincial capital and burnt it down, destroying the gods there as well.

Darius vowed retribution on them, The expedition he sent to punish them was defeated at Marathon in 490 BCE, and he then determined that the only way to keep the Greeks quiet was to bring them all under control of Persian provincial governors, and give each city a tyrant drawn from their own citizens.

He died before he could bring this into effect, passing the task to his son King Xerxes, who invaded in 480 BCE. It failed, defeated at Salamis, Plataia and Mycale.

Answer 3

He was mad at the greeks because they revolted at the persian ruler

Answer 4

They set up colonies which clashed with the persians... which made king darius very mad.!

Answer 5

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