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Persia tried to keep peace and prosperity within its empire (includung the Greek cities of Asia Minor) and stop external Greek cities from creating trouble within the empire. This failed and the Greeks went back to fighting each other, including the 27-year Peloponnesian War between the Athenian empire and the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta, which devastated the Greek world. Persia had to intervene to try to end it and stop the spillover into its empire.

Presumably the moral lesson is if others want to fight and damage themselves, leave them to it and keep your own house protected and in order.

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