The Persian Wars - 499 BC to 479 BC In the 5th century BC the vast Persian Empire attempted to conquer Greece. If the Persians had succeeded‚ they would have set up local tyrants‚ called satraps‚ to rule Greece and would have crushed the first stirrings of democracy in Europe. The survival of Greek culture and political ideals depended on the ability of the small‚ disunited Greek city-states to band together and defend themselves against Persia’s overwhelming strength. The struggle‚ known
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Evaluate Greek Unity as the main reason for Greek Victory against the Persians in the years 490BC-479BC. There is much discussion over whether it was Greek unity that caused the victory against the Persians in the years 490BC-479BC. The three main points of view on the matter is that they were not united at all‚ which can be seen from the accounts of Herodotus‚ that they were united‚ which can be seen in the Themistocles Decree and that it was Themistocles himself that made them unified. It
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the reasons for the victory of the Greeks in the Second Persian War (480–479 BC). The Greeks were victorious in the Second Persian War because of a number of factors. These include the superior leadership from commanders such as Themistocles and Leonidas‚ the effective Greek strategy and the cooperation of all the Greek city states to unite against a common threat. Ancient historians such as Aeschylus in his play ‘The Persians’ and Herodotus attribute the Greek victory to the so called ‘hubris’
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1. The struggle against the Persian invasion had occasioned a rare interval of inter-state cooperation in ancient Greek history. The two most powerful city-states‚ Athens and Sparta‚ had put aside their mutual suspicions stemming from their clash at the time of Cleisthenes’ reforms in order to share the leadership of the united Greek military forces. Their attempt to continue this cooperation after the repulse of the Persians‚ however‚ ended in failure. Out of this failure arose the so-called
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The Persian Wars: How the Greeks Won The Persian Wars were a series of conflicts fought between the Greek states and the Persian Empire from 500-449 BC. It started in 500 BC‚ when a few Greek city-states on the coast of Asia Minor‚ who were under the control of the Persian Empire‚ revolted against the despotic rule of the Persian king Darius. Athens and Eretria in Euboea gave aid to these Greek cities but not enough‚ and they were subdued by the Persians. The Persians became determined to conquer
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Persian Wars Persians wars were sequences of conflicts contested between Persia and ancient Greece‚ where the two were both ancient civilizations. The Greeks were successions of sovereign city states‚ and the most influential cities were Sparta and Athens. Athens had numerous celebrated philosophers and thinkers along having the privilege of being the first world’s democratic government. The people of Athens mostly depended on trade to obtain resources to be used to run the government. On the other
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Every great empire‚ country‚ person believe that they’re the ones who are doing what is right. They see nothing wrong with what they’re doing and blind to everything that doesn’t go along with what they want. For example‚ the war between the Greeks and Persians between 492 B.C.E. and 479 B.C.E. resulted in two world powers going head to head with each other. Greece is believed to be the symbol of Europe and for freedom‚ while Persia represents Asia and despotism. This allegation towards the two countries
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The Persian Wars were wars that were fought by Greek States and Persia over almost half a century. The Persian Wars started from two conflicts that occurred between 490 and 479 B.C.E and set against the Persian Empire against the Greek city-states. The conflict began after Athens and Eretria helped the Ionians in their revolution against Persia. The first Persian War was the Battle of Marathon in 490 B.C. The Persians sailed down the coast of Greece and landed at the bay of Marathon‚ about
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Persia All Persian men to the age of 50 years were obligated to serve in the armies of the Persian Empire Zoroastrianism‚ monotheism‚ good/evil‚ heaven/hell Greece turned boats into fighting platforms Similarities for both (if this works for ya) MILITARY IS A BIG ONE Agreed upon slavery & enforced it advanced civilization & technology- produced scholars that innovated much of our society’s sciences and philosophy works Persia- Rumi‚ Avicenna Greece- Socrates‚ Plato‚ Aristotle
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the Mediterranean. They sought revenge towards the Greeks‚ which caused King Darius to send demands to Greece. Athens and Sparta were very hesitant when obeying the demands‚ most of the other city-states were quick to obey. While the Greeks saw what Athens and Sparta did as an act of defiance and it showed pride‚ Darius was obviously not happy. This lead to the Persian Wars‚ which would eventually lead to the Peloponnesian War. Both of these wars had a major impact on Greece in very different ways
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