Western Civilization is hard to fathom but obvious when one looks at the aftermath of that fateful event. The revolts of a few Greek cities of Ionia were what initially sparked the Persians interest in Athens‚ Attica and the Peloponnese. When Athens sent a small fleet in support of the Ionian rebels they immediately gave Persia a new target for further expansion. The failure of the revolts and the ruin of Sardis and Miletus shocked the Greek world. The Persians now thought‚ "if Miletus had been the
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which would eventually lead to the Peloponnesian War. Both of these wars had a major impact on Greece in very different ways. In 499 B.C.E. Persia wanted to expand their empire to the Ionian Greek city states and in return the Ionians revolted against them. After the revolt the Athenians decided to send aid to the Ionian Greeks. These three things were the causes of the Persian Wars. In 492 B.C.E. Darius‚ king of Persia‚ sent a fleet of ships to Athens‚ this fleet never reached Athens due to a storm
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The History and Sights of Calabria Calabria is a region in southern Italy‚ south of Naples located at the “toe” of the peninsula. The capital of the region is Cosenza. The region is bounded between Basilicata‚ the Tyrrhenian Sea‚ and the Ionian Sea. The region has a population of two million and that number is still rising. Calabria was first settled by Italic Oscan – speaking tribes. Two of these tribes consisted of Oenotri‚ or the “vine-cultivators” and the Itali. Greek contact with the latter
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allowed others to speak their mind after his proposition. Herodotus explained in history that not every Persian member of the Empire agreed with Xerxes proposition. Some Persians believed the Greeks did not deserve a free escape from their aid to the Ionians‚ and some believed the invasion would cause more Persian deaths from battle or disasters during the march to Greece. Xerxes heard all of his Persian’s opinions on his plan for invasion‚ and he ignored the opinions who opposed the march through Europe
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sold the Ionian states to the Persians. Sparta could hardly claim to be the ‘liberator of the Greeks’. - Sparta had however earned the gratitude of many Greek states by overthrowing their Athenian rulers. States like Delos had literally been liberated by Sparta. She had great militaristic reputation‚ her hoplites never beaten in regular battle in 200 years. She was now a land and naval power‚ and was very politically stable internally. - Sparta now had to either hand over the Ionians or go to
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THE PERSIAN WAR The Persians and the Greeks were at war with each other in the Persian war. It started when the Ionians revolt against the Persians and asked Greek to save them. The wars were Marathon‚ Thermopylae‚ Salamis‚ and Plataea. The battle of Marathon was the first war. The Greeks won the war against the Persians. In the war the Persians thought they could sneak attack Athens but the Greeks were waiting for them the whole time. The battle of Thermopylae was the second war. The Persians
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The Peloponnesian War shook the Greek world so forcefully that Thucydides believed “it would be a great war‚ and more worthy of relation than any that had preceded it”. It spanned nearly thirty years‚ as Sparta and Athens grappled for power over the Greek world. Its length can be traced to many factors‚ however‚ for the sake of brevity‚ I have narrowed it down to three main reasons. Firstly‚ Sparta and Athens underestimated each other and overestimated themselves. Secondly‚ Athens and Sparta were
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Key: Sources for the period THE SPARTAN HEGEMONY (404BC TO 371BC) Sparta’s role at the end of the Peloponnesian war: Sparta had promised Persia the Ionian cities for its help in defeating Athens. This was a traitorous bargain‚ which subjected Ionian Greeks to Persian rule‚ and negated the victories of the Persian wars Sparta suppressed democracies within the Greek city-states and replaced these with oligarchies. This was done with force Lysander‚ a Spartan‚ was the hero of the Peloponnesian war
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rise of the city of Athens and the fall of the Persian Empire. The cause of the battle was the The Ionian Revolt which happened in 499-493 BC‚ the story is that Histiaeus didn’t like his long exile beyond the Tigris and wanted to go back to Ionia. He sent a message to Aristagoras on the head of a slave to tell him to start a rebellion. The Ionians got help from the Athenians but they saw the revolt was going to fail so left after they had burnt down Sardis according to Herodotus (5.102-5.103). This
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the war between the Persians and Greeks dates back nearly 15 years beforehand in 494 BC‚ at the Ionian revolt. During this time and age‚ the Persian Empire is a huge world power and have conquered a majority of the ancient world. Ionia is a small area of land off the coast of present day Turkey‚ near Greece. It had already been conquered by the Persian Empire‚ and was populated by Greeks. The Ionians revolted against the Persian rule and called for assistance from Greece. Out of the many polis’ in
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