What Persian king began a war against Athens and the Greeks after the Ionian revolt of 499 BC?

Answer 1

First was Darius I who sent a punitive expedition to repay Athens and Eretria for their intervention in support of Miletus which revolted against Persian rule; in the process these forces had burnt the Persian government centre of Sardis in Asia Minor. Darius' expedition captured Eretria but was turned back at Marathon and then in front of the city of Athens in 490 BCE. Darius determined to return in full force to bring mainland Greece under Persian rule and establish an ethnic frontier to stop the external Greek interventions in his Greek subjects in Asia Minor. A revolt in Egypt delayed this, and Darius then died. However his son Xerxes carried out his father's plan ten years later, and executed a full scale invasion of mainland Greece. Athens was captured in 480, but the Persians were crippled by defeat of their fleet at Salamis, and the following year a land defeat at Plataia and destruction of the rest of their fleet at Mykale.

Answer 2

Not against the Greeks, who were hundreds of independent city-states spread all around the Mediterranean and Black Seas.

Darius I of Persia vowed to exact revenge against the cities of Athens and Eretria for supporting the city of Miletus in Asia Minor - his territory. They went too far and burnt his provincial capital Sardis, which is what really focussed his ire against them.

He sent an expedition in 490 BCE against the two cities, Eretria was captured and enslaved, but it was defeated by Athens at Marathon and in front of Athens. Darius then determined to incorporate mainland Greece in his empire to stop this cross-sea meddling. He died and his son Xerxes tried to finish it off in 480 but this too failed.

Answer 3

First Darius, who sent a punitive expedition against Eretria and Athens in 490 BCE, which was defeated at Marathon. Then an invasion led by king Xerxes in 480-479 BCE against the whole Greek mainland, in which Athens was twice captured before the combined Greek navies and and navies defeated it in the battles of Salamis, Plataia and Mycale.

Answer 4

King Xerxes took over Athens and used it as quarters for his invading army - the Athenians had abandoned the city. He destroyed the gods in retribution for the Athenian destruction of the gods in the Persian provincial capital of Sardis by the Athenians 18 years earlier.

Answer 5

No Persian leader conquered the Greek world.

Answer 6

Cyrus the Great who conquered Ionia .

Answer 7

Xerxes I.