Persian Wars
Date Submitted: 08/31/2002 20:08:54
Category: / History / Middle East History
Length: 2 pages (619 words)
Category: / History / Middle East History
Length: 2 pages (619 words)
The Persian Wars
In 519 BC Darius I ascended the throne of the expanding empire of
Persia. A group of people called the Ionians, lived along the coast of Asia
Minor. They were under Persian rule, having been conquered by Emperor
Cyrus (ruled 550-530 BC), and at this time were unhappy about their
conditions.
In 499 BC Aristagoras, the leader Miletus, one of the city-states,
organized a revolt of all the rest of the city-states along the …
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…agile Greek vessels. Xerxes, who watched the defeat of his
mighty fleet from the shore, returned to Persia in disgust, leaving his
general Mardonius to subdue Greece with the army. A year later, the
Greeks under the Spartan general Pausanias obliterated the Persian army
at the Battle of Plataea. The Athenian navy sailed to Asia Minor and
destroyed what was left of the Persian fleet at Mykale, freeing the Ionian
city-states there from Persian rule.
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