The Greek era was based in the development of independent city states until Alexander the great and the Hellenistic period when for the first time on European land Greeks were united and formed a state entity as we understand it today and expanded to East creating the first Empire on two continents.
The Romans on the other hand formed a state entity on European land as we understand it today and expanded to the East, South, North and West and formed the first European Empire.
The Hellenistic Period.
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There was never ancient Greek empire as we think of it..It was a group of up to 1000+ individual cities with separate politics and armies and even culture and customs differed somewhat. So basically with the exception of Persian invasion, Sparta was in no way important to anyone except for themselves.They were probably one of the most hated cities in Greece because they were formidable foe and potential threat. Good thing is they had no plans for conquering anything farther than Peloponnessus so other cities did not had any direct problems with them.
Persia was looking to establish peace and stable government within its empire. The Greek cities within it were being encouraged in revolt by their mother-cities in mainland Greece. Persia decided that the only way to stop this was to bring those cities within the empire and establish an ethnic fromtier. The battles were designed to give effect to this policy.
To first destroy the Persian sea power which threatened the Greek city-states and so made them keep their armies at home defending their cities. With the sea threat gone, the cities could send out their armies to unite and take on the Persian army.
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At Marathon and Salamis, the Greek cities defeated the Persian forces. At Thermopylai the Persian forces defeated the Greek cities.
The Greek gods were worshiped in all ancient Greek cities.
The Battle of Marathon occurred during the Persian attempt to suppress Athens for interferince in supporting the uprising of the Greek cities within the Persian empire a decade earler (Ionian Revolt).The failure by Persia at Marathon led to their trying to absorb all the mainland Greek cities as a final solution to the problem, which brought on the main part of the wars which lasted from 499 to 449 BCE.
A consortium of Greek city-states looting the rich cities of Asia Minor.
Cities were countries in those days. Some Greek cities under the command of the King of Mycenae attacked the city of Troy.
The Greek dark age was a period of Greek history that lasted from the Dorian invasion in 1100 BC to the first signs of the Greek poleis which occurred in the 9th century BC. There was a lack of architectural structures built during this time.
Many people lost the ability to read and write.
Many people lost the ability to read and write.
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He declared an end to all attacks on the christians and he also moved the capital of the empire from Rome to the greek city of Byzantium.
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