How did the Greeks win the last Persian war?

Answer 1

They lost the Ionian War, then Athens and Plataia repelled a Persian attack 490 BCE, then the southern Greek states combined to defeat a major Persian invasion in a sea battle at Salamis 480 and land battles at Plataia and Mykale 479, and then later at battles at Eurymedon 466 and Cyprus 450 BCE. Persia then agreed to peace terms.

Answer 2

Superior strategy -

• They set about destroying the Persian fleet which threatened each of the Greek city-states with amphibious invasion and so the cities kept their armies at home to defend themselves until the sea threat ceased.
• When the Persian fleet was destroyed at Salamis, the cities were able to send their armies out to join up at Plataia the following year.
• The loss of the Persian fleet also left its sea supply vulnerable and in fact they had to send half their army home as they could not feed them in the upcoming winter.

Superior tactics -

• At Salamis they split the Persian fleet and defeated it in detail, also neutralising the larger Persian ships in narrow waters.
• At Plataia they kept to broken ground and so avoided the superio Persian cavalry, and were able to defeat the inferior Persian infantry.

Answer 3

They established a confederation to build land and sea forces which could match the Persians.

They first established sea supremacy.

They then combined to establish land supremacy.

After initial setbacks in the Ionian revolt and at Artemesion, they defeated the Persians repeatedly on land and sea - Salamis, Plataia, Mykale, Eurymedon, Cyprus and other lesser battles.

They kept this confederacy viable for long enough - fifty years - to persuade the Persians to stay out of Greek waters (then they went back to their usual occupation of fighting each other).

Answer 4

By first defeating the Persian fleet at Sxxxx, which deprived the Persians of their threat against the Greek cities, which had been keeping their armies at home to protect their cities against and amphibious attack. Loss of the Persian fleet also meant that they could not protect the sea convoys feeding their army, and had half of it home.

The following year the Greek cities sent out their armies to combine and defeat the remaining Persians and their Greek allies at Plataia, and simultaneously the remainder of the Persian fleet at Mycale.

Answer 5

they won by using all there fantastic wepons that made them win for sure.Also they won by using there shields and awsome armour . the other team lost because they only had a cape shorts and boots.what if someone runing to live steped on a persons very long cap and the person with the cape fell the guy with the cap will for sure die am i right on wrong. so a summury THE GREEKS WON YAY YAY :)

Answer 6

They won a series of battles over the 50 years of the war, and Persia finally gave up its attempt to impose peace on the Greek city-states and left them to go back to fighting each other.

Answer 7

In a series of sea and land battles between 480 and 450 BCE, resulting in a peace in 449 BCE.

Answer 8

By aadopting superior strategy, superior tactics, and out-fighting the Persian army and fleet.