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Notionally the Persian Empire had a couple of million men who could be called up across the empire. In terms of expeditionary forces, it was highly impracticable to use more than a small number of the best troops as most of the Persian levies were low quality unarmoured troops useless against armoured Greek warriors). So the reality of the invasion of Greece in 480 BCE was an army of 180,000.
The size of the Greek army depended on the willingness of the independent Greek cities to turn out. As Persia sent its army through Thrace to Greece, Athens and Sparta sent a force of 10,000 to defend the pass at Tempe, but it was withdrawn as it was outflanked.
The Greek cites kept their armies at home to defend against threatened attack by the Persian fleet. The Greeks fought two sea battles at Artemesion and Salamis, the second one being successful. As they couldn't send their supply ships without naval protection, the Persians had to send half their army home as they couldn't feed them during the winter.
So at the critical land battle at Plataea the following year, the Persians had 90,000 of their own troops and 40,000 Greek allies. Greek cities, the sea threat to their cities gone, sent out their armies, which totalled 110,000 (only 21 cities out of 200 participated). The Greek armoured infantry was dominant, the Persian cavalry was superior, so the Greeks picked battle in rough country at Plataea to impede the cavalry, stayed away from the Persian-allied Greek armoured infantry, and over-ran the weaker Persian infantry to win the battle.
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How were Spartans able to hold off such a large Persian army?
Persians were way bigger than. Greek soldier and had better tools
How were Spartans able to hold off a large Persian army?
Persians were way bigger than. Greek soldier and had better tools
Did the Persian army have mostly only Persians?
Yes the Persian Army is composed majority of Persians, the immortals and the Archers. But there is also Mercenaries from Greece and the other citizens of their dominions.
What was the name of the battle where Alexander and army defeated the Persians?
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How many Persians were killed by Genghis Khan's army in 1218?
all of them
Why did the Greeks need an army and a navy?
To defend themselves from the Spartans, Romans, and Persians.
What the greek army did in 479 BC?
They defeated the Persians.
Where did the army of 300 Spartans guarded a narrow pass against the Persians?
Thermopole
What was the name of the battle where Alexander army defeated the Persians?
Granicus, then Isus, then Gaugamela.
How do the Persians get to Greece in Persian war one?
Their army by marching and their fleet by sailing.
Were the Persians eventually able to fight off the Spartans?
The Persians invaded mainland Greece and faced a combined fleet and army of some Greek city-states, including Sparta. The Persians were defeated at sea and on land.
Who beat who in the battle of Thermopylae?
There were two sides. An assembled team of Greek states and the Persians. The Greek states were heavily outnumbered, due to the size of the Persian army and the fact that many Greek states didn't send any armies. The Greeks beat the Persians in the naval battle, forcing them to go through the narrow pass guarded by the states' armies. The armies stood at the pass blocking the Persians. The Persians failed to destroy the blocking army. Eventually a local citizen showed the Persians a path through the mountains. The leader of the army King Leonidas decided to send the bulk of the army away and keep about 1100 men to keep blocking the pass. These men were annihilated, but it was a Pyrrihic victory for the Persians, as they lost more men then they killed. The Persians were later defeated by the Greeks a year after the battle
