Persian Empire

Currently, most Persians (or Iranians) are Muslim.

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One contribution they made was to the Spartan alliance late in the Peloponnesian War to enable the Spartan alliance to develop a navy which could match the Athenian one, leading to Athens' downfall.

Another contribution was their attempts to bring peace and order to the Western Mediterranean, which was why they invaded peninsular Greece in 480 (unsuccessfully), supported the Spartan alliance in the Peloponnesian War, and finally imposed the King's Peace in 387 BCE to end the endless ongoing wars between the Greek city-states which disrupted the whole region.

Alexander, king of Macedonia and Hegemon of the Greek.

Its called a Khaki

The Persian Empire incorporated Libyans, Egyptians, Phoenicians, Greeks, Mesopotamians, Medes, Persians, Indians and several other lesser peoples.

They evacuated the city, sending their families to sanctuary in friendly cities in the Peloponnese, and embarked on their warships to fight at sea. A small number tried to hold out on the Acropolis but they were soon eliminated.

Democracy was not spread by the Persians and your welcome.

The lesser Persian people absorbed first their neighbour the Medes and used the combined strength to progressively take over the Middle East, each absorption increasing its power until it had created an empire stretching from Asia Minor to today's Pakista.

No. Afghanistan was one of many regions that came under the historic control of Persia on different occasions. However, these regions were never called "Persia". Afghanistan had several names, such as North Khorasan, Parthia, Bukhara, etc.

The historic country of Persia is properly identified with the modern Islamic Republic of Iran, which is its successor-state (post-revolution).

Yes, Iran used to be called Persia, but the name was later changed by Reza Shah, one of the past kings of Iran. We still call ourselves Persians to embrace our past culture. Yes, Iran used to be called Persia, but the name was later changed by Reza Shah, one of the past kings of Iran. We still call ourselves Persians to embrace our past culture.

The wars fought between the ancient Greeks and the Achaemenid Empire of Persian are called the Persian Wars. They began in 499 BCE and lasted untl 449 BCE (50 years)

The Persians are known about their great history that goes as back as 3000 BCE. Their peak in history were the Persian - Greek wars of 490 and 480 BCE when they invaded Greece in their atempt to expand to the west. Their decline was during the Greco-Persian wars of 333 BCE when Alexander III King of Makedon and Greeks invaded Persia and defeated the Achaemenid Persian Emprire.

the persians strenthen their empire by being under attack alot they became so strong they cauld almost beat the athalots

One important way the Persians controlled their empire was through delegation. After a territory or country was conquered, the Persian king would set up an authority of that country who would rule semi-independently but differ to the Persian king.

The Babylonians were a people who established an empire in the Middle East. The Persians were a tribe to the east in today's Iran, who established an empire by defeating Medes and used the combined strength to take over the Babylonian Empire.

Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Oman (exclave of Musandam), Iraq, and Iran all border the Persian Gulf.

Until about the eighth century BCE, the Persians appear to have followed a pagan tradition influenced by the ancient culture of the Indo-Iranian people of southern Russia. Then Zoroastrianism, which also originated among the Indo-Iranian people, arrived from eastern Iran where it had been the principal religion for centuries.

Minor inroads were made by Christianity and Manichaeism, but Zoroastrianism remained the principal religion of the Persians until the arrival of Islam.

Polytheism - a wide range of gods. The imperial cult was Zoroastrianism, the religion of today's Parsees.

Thermopylae in Greece .

The Persian admirals - there were two passages on either side of the island of Psittalia and the Persian fleet split to seal both, while the Egyptian component of the fleet went around to seal off the western entry to the gulf..

Ancient Persia was very big. Yes, part of it did extend into modern day India, but it was mostly in Iraq, Iran, and Turkey.

The Zoroastrians of Iran moved to India after the coming of Islam. In India the Zoroastrians are known as Parsees. Musicians Freddie Mercury and Zubin Mehta come from the Parsee community

Persia had only a tenuous hold on part of today's Pakistan. At the time of Alexander's takeover of that area, Chandragupta had already begun his drive west to take over all of India, so India was imposing itself on the Persians rather than the reverse. The real long term cultural influences were the Aryan backgrounds of both - the Indo-Iranian peoples.

The Achaemenid Empire pronounced (Hakhamaneshiyan) also known as Persian empire with its continent called Persia is today's Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Ancient Egypt, some of Pakistan, India, with northern Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Libya and Coastal Regions of Iraq.

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The Spartans never really recovered from the huge loss of life in 465 BC earthquake and subsequent helot revolt as well as wars with Argives and Arcadians (except Mantineans) which came immediately after epic war with Persia, and basically ended in the eve of the Great earthquake.

Wounded Sparta then embarked on a very tough, civil war equivalent - Peloponnesian war(s). But it ended it not as a former military power, though still strong, but as more of a political power, which at the end of an exausting war gave them a victory. But at what cost? Spartan system crumbled, adn with citizen population decimated, their army was no longer an elite, their warriors weren't bred from childhood to be the best in Greece, but most of the army were now either free semi trained periokoi (second class citizens) or even freed helots (public slaves).

Finally, Thebans, which rose to power in Greece in 4th century BC after almost 800 years since last heyday, defeated Spartan army in the battle of Leuctra in 371 BC, officially ending the very slow process of Spartan power fading, which started almost immediately after Persian wars. That wasn't the first nor the last defeat Spartans had suffered, but it was probably the most decisive, as it never recovered its power.

But only few decades later, Thebans also fell to the power of Alexander the Great and Hellenistic kingdoms, who again, after Alexander's death soon fell to the Romans, together with entire Greece.

Sparta was slowly reduced to a remote village, a Roman tourist attraction, and in the early middle ages, after several barbarian attacks and fall of Rome, it ceased to exist until refounded by modern Greeks as Sparti in the end of 19th century where it still stands.