Miletus - its Persian-appointed Greek tyrant Aristagoras persuaded the Persian provincial governor to participate in a conquest of the Greek island of Naxos. The expedition failed, and Aristagoras, knowing Persian retribution was coming, stirred up the Ionian cities to revolt to cover himself.
499 BCE
yes they did
Persian War.
Xerxes I.
The Greek and Persian War started in 499 B.C.
Herodotus
Persia lost.
NO! The Persian war was ancient Greece vs the Persians USA didnt even exist then.
The Persian War
The outcome set a limit to Persian expansion to the west.
The Persian invasion of peninsular Greece 480-479 BCE.
Historians today think the 1st Persian war started around 490 BC.