How the lonians were responsible for the start of Persian Wars?

Answer 1

The Persians had the Greek cities within their empire ruled by Greek tyrants to keep them quiet. One of the tyrants, Xxxxx of Miletus attacked Naxos, failed and realising that the Persians would punish him for this failed act of war, encouraged the Greek cities to rebellion against persia to protect himself. This began the Ionian Revolt into which Athens and Xxxxx from the Greek mainland got involved, and the war spread.

The Persians realised that this external Greek encouragement would result in ongoing rebellions and harm the peace and prosperity of their empire, and decided to bring the mainland Greek cities under control of tyrants which they would appoint, overseen by a Persian provincial governor. The northern Greek cities were absorbed, the southern ones resisted, and the war flowed on for 50 years until the persians gave up and left them to their own internal wars.

Answer 2

The Persians, when they incorporated the Greek city-states in Asia Minor into their empire from 540 BCE, appointed local Greeks as tyrants to rule the cities under direction of the Persian provincial governor based at Sardis. The tyrant of Miletus, Aristagoras, led an expedition to capture Naxos in 499 BCE - it failed, and to protect himself from Persian retribution, he fomented a rebellion of Miletus and the other Ionians cities against Persian rule. This spread to the other Greek cities (Aeolian and Carian) in Asia Minor and provoked the universal revolt.

These Greek cities were originally colonies of the Greek cities of Mainland Greece, and two of these, Athens and Eretria, sent contingents supporting the revolt, and ended up burning down the Persian provincial capital of Sardis.

When the revolt had been put down, the Persians sent an expedition to punish the two cities, and when this failed at the battle of Marathon in 490 BCE, the Persians decided to bring all of mainland Greece under control, resulting in a full scale invasion in 480-479 BCE.

Answer 3

Aristagoras, tyrant of Miletus, went on a pillaging expedition to Naxos, persuading the Persian governor of Asia Minor to join in. It failed, and Aristagoras knew he was facing Persian retribution, so he conned the rest of the Ionian cities into revolting against Persian rule. Thr Persians put the revolt down, but the mainland Greek city-states Eretria and Athens had supported the revolt, so Persia decided to punish them, and the war spread to mainland Greece.

Answer 4

The Ionian Revolt : the Ionians revolted against their Persian overlords ~ see related link below .

Answer 5

They revolted against Persian rule, and involved mainland Greek city-states on their side, which led the Persians to turn on them after putting the Ionian rebellion down.

Answer 6

The Ionian city-states rebelled against Persian rule, and when their mother cities in mainland Greece intervened on their side, the war spread to mainland Greece.