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The Persians did not defeat the Spartans. If you are talking about the engagement at Thermopylai, the Greek force holding the pass was evacuated and the Spartan element (King Leonidas' personal bodyguard) stayed behind to allow then to withdraw unscathed. They were eventually overwhelmed in carrying out this selfless sacrifice.
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∙ 11y agoThe Persians did not defeat the Spartans.
In the major land battle of the Persian invasion in 480-479 BCE at Plataia in 479, the 5,000 Spartan warriors were part of the 38,700 heavy infantry of the southern Greek forces. With the auxiliary light troops the total force was 110,000.
The Persian army main force comprised 90,000 Persian troops plus about 40,000 central and northern Greek soldiers allied to them.
The southern Greek side won against the lightly armed Persians and their Greek allies in a battle where the southern Greeks avoided the superior Persian cavalry by staying on rough ground. Their superior armoured warriors broke the lighter armed Perians.
This was a lesson they had learned from the Athenian-Plataian force which won at Marathon ten years earlier - avoid the cavalry and the Persian infantry could not stand up to armoured infantry.
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What happened to the Athens after the war?
Thermopylai was not a war, it was a small delaying action in the 50-year Persian War. Athens had already abandoned the city and sent its women, children, oldies and slaves to refuge in cities in the Peloponnesian peninsula. The able males manned its fleet which combined with the fleets of the other cities to fight on at sea. The Persians burnt and looted the city and demolished its walls in retribution for the defeat inflicted on them at Marathon ten years earlierat. The Persians withdrew north for the winter, then reoccupied the city the following spring. When the Persians were defeated by the coalition of Greek city-states at Plataia, the Athenians reoccupird their city and built new walls, this time extending them down to include its port, so that the city could be supplied by sea in future seiges.
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What does the banner say in the battle of issus?
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Were the Persians eventually able to fight off the Spartans?
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Was the Byzantian general Belisarius able to defeat the Persians?
No.
In the battle of marathon how were the Spartans able to hold off such a large Persian army?
The Spartans, alongside other Greeks were able to hold the Persians by fighting in the narrow pass of Thermopylae with the sea on one side and cliffs on the other. They were a…
How were Spartans able to hold off a large Persian army?
Persians were way bigger than. Greek soldier and had better tools
How were Spartans able to hold off such a large Persian army?
Persians were way bigger than. Greek soldier and had better tools
Why were the Greeks able to defeat the Persians at the Plain of Marathon?
It was the Athenian and Plataian armies, which defeated the inferior Persian infantry caught without its cavalry support.
How did the Athens and the Spartans defet the Persians?
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Why were the Greeks able to defeat the Persians?
They adopted a superior strategy of first defeating the Persian navy, and cutting off their sea supply line. The Persians had to send half their army home for the winter, and the Greeks united the city-state armies to defeat the depleted Persian army.
Did the Persians defeat the Greeks?
In the early stages from 499 BCE when Persia dominated, they were able to use Greek inter-city rivalries and disunity, ease of bribing their leaders, and in the field, the superiority of their cavalry and the fleets, which latter they levied from Phoenecia, Egypt and the Ionian Greeks as well. As the Greeks gained more cohesion and the will to combine for their common defence, they were able to consistently defeat the Persians on sea and land, until Persia agreed to peace in 449 BCE.
Is it true that the Persians were never able to defeat the Greeks?
No. The Persians put down the Ionian Revolt by the Greek cities in Asia Minor 499-493 BCE, captured Eretria in 490 BCE, and defeated the combined fleet of the Greek city-states at Artemesion in 480 BCE, then captured Athens.
How were the Greek cities able to beat the Persians?
By temporarily setting aside their usual fighting amongst themselves, uniting, establishing a plan to first defeat the Persian fleet and then its army, and executing it intelligently and steadfastly.
