Persian Empire

Greece went to war against Persia primarily due to Persian expansionism and the desire for autonomy among Greek city-states. The immediate catalyst was the Ionian Revolt (499-494 BC), where Greek cities in Asia Minor sought freedom from Persian rule, prompting Athens and Eretria to support the rebels. This interference angered the Persian king Darius I, leading him to seek retribution against Athens, ultimately culminating in the Persian Wars, marked by key battles such as Marathon (490 BC) and Salamis (480 BC). The conflicts were driven by a mix of political, cultural, and territorial ambitions on both sides.

Conquest, establishing an effective provincial government system, and being able to protect the Empire and advance its prosperity.

Because he was Greek.

Which battle - there were many, but the Greeks won by superior strategies and tactics.

King Darius the Great.

Life - he was murdered on the eve of his departure for Asia.

Asia Minor was part of the Persian Empire. Alexander the Great took the Persian Empire by military conquest.

Persia conquered the Babylon Empire and took it over.

It provided a throughway for horsed couriers in a time with no electronic communication, speeding up the transmission of messengers in areas where there was no river of sea access.

Libya, Egypt, the Middle East, Central Asia, Pakistan.

Both were polytheistic - having many gods with different areas of power.

Cyrus the Great was noted for his compassion rather than his warrior self. He started off uniting the Medes with Lydians.

Slaves sold in Mediterranean countries were generally from West Africa, while those sold in Persia were generally from East Africa.

The combined strengths of the Greek city-states matched the Persian strength on both sea and land. The Persian strengths have been greatly overstated by historians who have used the overall Persian strength rather than the forces the employed on campaigns. The Persian army was about 180,000, but after their navy was defeated at Salamis they had to send half that army home as they could not supply them by sea, and the countryside was too poor to support them all. This meant the sides were about equal, the Greeks had the benefit of their infantry being armoured, and the operated in rough ground to avoid the superior Persian cavalry.

Marathon was a plain. The combined armies of Athens and Plataea defeated a Persian punitive expedition on the Marathon plain.

They did at the battles of Salamis, Plataea and Mykale, which saw the Persian invasion force withdrawn.

It expanded the empire of the Assyrians and Babylonians to stretch from Libya to Central Asia.

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Philip II of Macedon planned an invasion to conquer Persia but was murdered shortly before the invasion began.

There were 20 provincial governors responsible for internal and external security, taxes, development, overseen by the king and council. Traditional government - city-state, tribal, principalities continued to carry out local government.

By conquest.

They stayed in the hills around the Plain of Marathon where the Persian cavalry couldn't get at them, waiting for reinforcements from Sparta.

Libya, Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzistan..