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Superior naval and land strategies and tactics.
Operating on interior lines - that is, being close to their source of supply of men, food and materiel, unlike the Persians whose support came from Asia Minor in an age of poor transport.
A major Greek strategy was the elimination of the persian fleet, which
- could no longer protect supply ships - after losing naval superiority at Salamis, half the Persian army went home as it could not be supplied.
- posed an amphibious threat to the Greek cities which kept their armies at home protecting them - after Salamis the Greek armies were able to concentrate at Plataia to defeat the reduced Persian army.
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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.
Why did the Athenians beat the Persians?
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.
Why were the Greeks able to uniquly slow the Persian advance at themompoly?
To reach Athens, the Persians wanted to go through a narrow pass called Themopylae. Fortunately for the Athenians, it was guarded by 300 Spartan soldiers who were famous for their strength and courage. They were led by Leonidas, the Spartan King. This way the Greeks were able to slow down the the Persian advance. The Spartan soldiers were killed to the last man.
What was happening in the Artemisia Strait during the battle of Thermopylae?
Three days of naval skirmishing which the Greeks lost. Their closure of the Thermopylae pass was designed to bring on a naval battle so that the inferior Greek fleet could have a chance of defeating the Persian one and so eliminate the Persian amphibious threat to the Greek cities, and also expose the Persian water supply line on which they were dependent.After this failure, they tried again in the strait of Salamis and won. Unable to support all their army with no sea supply, the Persias had to send half their army home, and the following year the Greeks were able to leave their cities now that the amphibious threat was eliminated, concentrate at Plataia, and defeat the depleted Persian army.
Why was the battle of platea a turning point fo the Greeks?
After destroying Persian sea power at the battle of Salamis, they were able to defeat their army, and so end the attempt by the Persians to incorporate the cities of mainland Greece into the Persian Empire.
What was important about that Battle of Marathon in 490 B.C.?
The Battle of Marathon was a turning point during the first Persian invasion of Greece. The Persians vastly outnumbered the Greeks on the battlefield, but the Greeks were able to defeat them. The Greeks charged the Persian troops with a thin weaker line, while the Greeks' left and right flanks consisted of stronger troops who quickly surrounded the Persian troops and attacked them on both sides. It was a crushing defeat for the Persians, and the battle convinced the Greeks that while the Persian Empire had vast armies and archers, it was possible to defeat them.
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.
Was the battle of Plataea turning point for the Greeks?
After destroying Persian sea power at the battle of Salamis, they were able to defeat their army, and so end the attempt by the Persians to incorporate the cities of mainland Greece into the Persian Empire.
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.
What was one major battle from the Persian Wars and the role geography played?
The Battle of Salamis was brought on by the Greeks in order to end the Persian amphibious threat to the Greek city-states. This threat made the cities keep their armies at home in self defence. The defeat of the Persian navy at Salamis ended that threat, and the cities were then able to send out their armies to unite and defeat the Persian army at Plataea, ending the Persian invasion.
Why were Greeks able defeat persions plain marathon?
Because the Persians didn't have patience and sent the horsemen in first and the strongest in the boat leaving their weakest variable to Greek attack. The Greeks won even though they were outnumbered, because of the general's mistake of not waiting for the Greeks to come to the Persian forces.
How was Philip able to defeat the Greeks?
By superior force, strategy and tactics.
Why was it surprising that the Greeks defeated the Persians?
Who was surprised? Not the southern Greeks who defeated them. They had a plan - destroy the Persian navy. Having done this, half the Persian army was sent home because they could not be fed in such a poor country. Also the Greek cities who had kept their armies at home defending against the threat of an amphibious attack were now able to send them out to concentrate against the remaining Persian army and defeat it.
Why were the Greeks able to hold the Persian Empire off?
theyre able because they had a bigger army and more supplies
Why were the Greeks able to defeat the Persiana on the plain of Marathon?
It was not 'the Greeks', it was the Athenian army with its ally Plataia. They attacked the inferior Persian infantry while their supporting superior cavalry was being loaded onto ships to attack Athens from the sea, with traitors to open the city gates to let them in. After defeating the Persian infantry, the Athenians ran the 26 miles back to Athens, arriving in front of the city as the Persian cavalry was being disembarked. Frustrated, the Persian expedition went home.
Why did the Athenians beat the Persians?
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.
Why were the roman s able to construct buliding larger than those of the greeks?
The Romans were able to construct buildings larger than the Greeks because they used concrete and had new architectural forms.
