Battle Of Greece Research Paper

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In the 400 B.C.’s there was a war in greece.Persia was a neighbor to the greek people but they weren’t a good neighbor.They were greece’s enemy.The greeks enemy was the persian empire that wanted to take all of the land in greece and rule the land.The main reason the war happened was that the ionians which was greeks on the coastline of turkey were tired of being on the edge of the persians so they the burned the capital or hometown of persia.When the greeks did that the parsians were furious.So they planned an attack on greece.

The first battle that the persians had on greece was a battle called marathon.The first emperor planned this attack and they went there by sea.When they got there they were surprised by how the greeks were sitting there and ready to fight the persians.The greeks then won the battle and knew that the main army of persia was going to athens.The greeks marched there as fast as they could and beat them to it.Persia was surprised by this and didn’t even try to fight they just went back home.The first emperor then died and he had a son to continue the fights for him.He then planned another attack.

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