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What happened to Marathon in the Persian Wars?
It was the site of a battle between Athens and Plataea and a Persian expeditionary force sent to take over Athens and reinstall an Athenian tyrant to prevent it causing further trouble within the Persian Empire. The Athenians repelled the Persian force at the battle.
What happened to the Greeks at the battle of marathon?
The Greek present - the Athenians and Plataians - won with minimal casualties and drove off the Persian force sent against them.
The first Persian invasion of Greece was brought on by what?
The Greek cities in Asia (colonised by the mainland Greek cities) were restive under Persian rule. Miletus revolted, Eretria and Athens sent military assistance, and were over-adventurous in burning the Persian provincial capital Sardis. After reducing Miletus, in 490 BCE Persian king Darius sent a punitive expedition (not an invasion of Greece) against the two cities to warn the Greeks to stay out of his empire; he also wanted to neutralise the two offenders by installing puppet regimes in them. Eretria was reduced, but Athens defeated the attack on it. This led Darius to plan the submission of all mainland Greece in order to establish an ethnic frontier of his empire in the west. This led to the invasion of Greece in 480 BCE afterhis death by his son and successor king Xerxes.
When the The Persian Wars started when Emperor Darius I began an invasion of Greece. What caused Darius to decide to attack Greece?
When the Greek city-states within the Persian Empire in Asia Minor revolted in 499 BCE, mainland Greece cities Eretria and Athens sent military force to assist this Ionian Revolt. After the revolt was put down, Darius decided to punish these cities and sent an expedition. This was repelled at Marathon, so Darius decided that the only way to stop the mainland Greek city-states disturbing the peace in his empire was to bring them under control of a Persian governor. He began bribing the cities, and planned an invasion to bring the others under control, but died and the project was taken on by his successor Xerxes.
What war started after the Ionian revolt?
The Greek-Persian war's, started because Athens and Eritrea sent ships to assist the Ionian's in separating from the Persian empire, because a divided Persia is easier to conquer. It was Darius who began preparations to attack Greece but soon after he died and his son Xerxes took over the task. This was a retaliation against Greece ( an eye for an eye), Persia was not the aggressor.
What happened in the to Persian Wars?
Persia put down the Ionian revolt of 499 BCE, failed in the punitive expedition it sent against Athens, launched a full scale invasion on mainland Greece which was repelled, continued on trying to retain control of the Asian Greek city-states, and after further losses, agreed to peace in 449 BCE.
A sentence with the word Persian?
the Persian empire ruled for many centuries. Persians did not tolerate crimes.
What caused Darius to conquer Greece?
The Persuian War was 499-449 BCE. The idea of First, Second, Third Persian Wars is a modern misconconstrution. Also, Darius did not attack Greece, as there was no country of Greece. There were hundreds of independent city-states, some within the Persian Empire, some outside. The starting problem was the Ionian Revolt where the Greek cities in Persian Asia Minor revolted and were put down. During this revolt, Eretia and Athens, both outside the Persian Empire, gave aid to the revolting cities. Darius sent a punitive expedition in reprisal. It was defeated at Marathon. He then planned to bring all the Greek cities under his control to put an end to Greek breaches of peace, order and prosperty. He died before mountig this attempt, but it was carried out by his son and successor Xerxes I.
How did the Greek respond to the threat from Persia during the Persian war?
The city-states of southern and central mainland Greece held a conference and resolved to oppose th Persian demands for submission. They also sent envoys to the western Greek cities in Sicily and the islands soliciting support. They elected Sparta to command on land and sea, and patched over standing disputes between the cities, at least for the time being. The Spartans and Athenians sent a force of 100 ships and 10,000 warriors to the pass at Delphi to try to head off a Persian advance, but finding that thee pass could be easily outflanked by an inland route, soon abandoned it. It was obvious that the key factor was the dominant Persian fleet, which could threaten all of the southern city-states one by one, which as a consequence kept their armies at home defending their cities, and these cities could be defeated one by one. So in order to be able to concentrate their land forces against the Persian army they had to get rid of the threat of the Persian fleet. They resolved to block the Persian army at the pass of Thermopylai and so force the Persians into a sea battle to turn the position, and the sea battle would be in a narrow passage at Artemesion wher the larger and more numerous Persian ships could be matched. The sea battle faied and the blocking force was withdrawn from the pass, so they made a second attempt in the similarly narrow waters at Salamis, which suceeded. The depleted Persian fleet was withdrawn to Asia and half the Persian army was sent home as there was not enough food in Greece to support it during the winter now that the Persian fleet could no lomger protect the resupply ships from Asia. This evened things up. With the threat to their cities gone, the Greek cities sent their armies to join up in the spring and defeat the remaining Persian force and its Greek allies at Plataia. Of course, after they had defeated the Persians who went home, the cities went back to fighting each other.
In Persian government who were the eyes and ears of the king and what did they do?
They were inspectors who were sent by the Persian King to make sure their provinces were still loyal
Why did the Persians attack the Athenians?
They were facing a Persian punitive expedition sent against them. They saw an opportunity when the Persian cavalry was loaded on ships and left the Persian infantry unsupported.
When colonies wanted freedom from Persia what did Greece do?
The Greek city-states of Ionia were induced to revolt against Persian rule and two of ther mother-cities Eretria and Athens sent military contingents to support them. After putting dow the revolt, Persia sent a punitive expedition against them (which failed at Marathon).
