Bot Both Darius And Xerxes's Journey Into Europe

The desire for Persian kings such as Darius and Xerxes on their expeditions into Europe could stem from a great number of factors. The desire for more luxurious goods may have played a large role in the campaigns as Xerxes is described as refusing Athenian dates until he can take them himself without paying. Another motivation could be derived from the military tradition of the Persians, as each ruler was expected to campaign and be skilled fighters, somewhat forcing the hands of the Persian kings to continuously campaign and expand their boundaries. This paper however will focus on what seems to be the most prominent factor playing into the Persians desire to campaign into Europe, the rebellious uprisings along western Anatolia. These uprisings brought attention to the Persian kings that the poisonous relationship that the Greeks played in their influence over those in Anatolia, thus causing the Persians to attempt cut out the problem at the source by directly attacking the source of the uprisings, which in turn were a catalyst for the Greco-Persian wars. …show more content…
The scale of the invasion can also be measured by the amount of subjects they brought to war from areas under their control such as Egyptian and Phoenician engineers, Medes, Babylonians and other regions in which the Achaemenids ruled over, thus showing extent in which they were willing to go in their attempts to eradicate the poisonous threat in which they viewed the