Ionian Revolt

forces to fight against Persia. At the time, the Persian empire was the biggest empire that conquered from southern Egypt to Eastern India. It was founded in 550 BCE by Cyrus the great. The cause of the war was because of the Ionian revolt. The Ionia revolt was a group of Ionian rebels that fought the Persians after they found out that the Persian empire had taken over them. Before Ionia was conquered by Persia, it was conquered by Lydia until Persia conquered Lydia along with Ionia. Ionia…

Europe to be a major power throughout history. The Battle of Marathon was vital to the survival of Athens. After all, the invasion by the Persians was a strike of revenge against Athens for the city-state’s part in the Ionian Revolution. “Soon, other Ionian Greek cities joined the revolt. Athens was quick to lend support with both money and warriors, even helping the rebels to burn the regional capital, Sardis.” (Meyers 1). After the failure of the…

During the 5th century BC, Persian King Darius I led his people in many attempts to conquer Greece. The Persians invaded Greece due to the support the Athenians provided the Ionians when they were trying to overthrow the Persians. During the Ionian revolt, the Persians were defeated in Sardis with the help of Athens, consequently King Darius, for obvious reasons, held a grudge against Greece and was determined to destroy Athens. These events led to the Battle of Marathon, one of the earliest…

Jacob Andrews 09/21/16 3rd Persian War The persians and their king Darius wanted to conquer greece more than ever. Persia wanted more and more land. Also, the greeks helped the ionians to revolt against the persians, and had marched to Sardis and burned the city. The Battle of Marathon was a major battle in the first war between the Greek city and the Persian Empire. It was a major victory for the Greeks, and some historians argue that it is one of the most important battles in the history…

Before 490 the Persian empire expanded, so naturally the next invasion was Greece. Little do they know what a grave mistake that was. In 499 the Ionian sector of Greece revolted along with the Athenians, which was the start of the Greco-Persian wars. These wars would expand over mainland Greece to Attica, where Athenians, Spartans, and members from other city-states would fight victoriously for their land. In Herodotus’ narrative of the Greco-Persian Wars, the Greeks were successful because of…

Eleutheria: Freedom “Hanson daringly brings the facts to life and unearths the often surprising ways in which the past informs the present.” Western Civilization’s basic social norms and values traced back to Ancient Greece, were ultimately threatened by the overwhelming numbers and wrath of the Persian army. The Persians were distinctly divergent from the Ancient Greeks in the sense that their culture did not agree with the concepts of Western Civilization. An interesting fact talked about by…

associated with democracy. After Greece’s downfall, democracy was not known again till the American Revolution. History is made by Great People. The Father of history was a man by the name Herodotus who wrote about the Persian wars. The early revolt by the Ionians during the Persian Wars (499-494 B.C.) ignited the ideas of democracy, because of the fear of enslavement by the Persian King Darius I. The Greeks leader Miltiades resisted the Persians with a smaller number of soldiers by using…

Persian noble families; Darius was crowned the following morning. The new king met with rebellions throughout his kingdom and quelled them each time. A major event in Darius's life was his expedition to punish Athens and Eretria for their aid in the Ionian Revolt, and subjugate Greece. Although ultimately ending in failure at the Battle of Marathon, Darius succeeded in the re-subjugation of Thrace, expansion of the empire through the conquest…

Athenians expanded their aid to the Asia Minor colonies because they were fighting with the Persian empire. Spreading help can also help expand Greece as explained by the author,”To aid the Ionian Revolt, led by Miletus, the Athenians landed a small garrison in Ionia to fight against the persians and to spread the revolt”(Sakoulas,11). The Greeks are starting to expand their army to get more military involved in case Athens get into their own fight. The empire of Athens now has more empires…

Even after the war, Athens eventually rebuilt its walls, navy, League and democracy. Athenians would have not rebuilt democracy if they thought it did not work, if so, then it would be a waste of their time to rebuild something that clearly did not seem to bring any good. Looking at the history, Sparta should have lost the war. Athens had the leadership, resources and money to go to war. Their navy was strong and unbeatable. Sparta on the other hand lacked leadership, money and had no navy.…