What To Know About The Ancient Greece Persia War

By Michelle Miller


In the 492 BC to 449 BC, there were series of war that was fought between the person and the Greek. At the time of this war, the Persian Empire was the largest and the one, which was more potent. These bodies controlled a stretch of land that came from Egypt to India. On the other hand, the Greeks were made of some city-states like the Athens and Sparta. The cities used to fight against each other until the time that they united their force to fight against the Persia in the Ancient Greece Persia war.

The people living on the coastal side of Turkey were conquered and colonized by the Persians a regime that they were very much opposed to. Because of that, they decided to seek help from the Greeks to fight against Persia. Though the Greeks sent help to assist the coastal Ionians, the Persians proved stronger than them and still defeated them. That caused King Darius of Persia to develop the interest of fighting with Persia to silence them from assisting the Ionians, which he did.

The King who led the war against the Greek people gathered a vast army of soldiers that outnumbered that of the Greek community. They then surrounded the Greek Community and started the battle this was around 490 BC. However, despite the enormous number of soldiers, the one thing the Persian underestimated was the fighting capability that the Greeks had. The Greek army lost 192 soldiers but managed to kill 6000 soldiers that fought for King Darius.

After the battle, the Greek soldiers ran 25 miles back to their city, which was known as Athens so that they could prevent the soldiers under King Darius I from attacking the city. This was where the origin of marathon race came from.

Ten years after this incident when the son of King Darius who was known as King Xerxes decided to attack the Greeks to avenge his father. He decided to amass a massive army that was using one thousand warships to fight the Greeks. On the other hand, the people of Greece sent only 300 Spartans led by the king of Sparta known as Leonidas.

The Greeks agreed with the Persians to meet up in a mountain referred to as Thermopylae. They planned to attack a narrow pass that was found on the mountain. The Greeks withheld their army led by King Xerxes until they figured out a way around the mountain and were behind the Greek soldiers. On seeing what had transpired, King Leonidas asked the army to run and stayed behind fighting alongside a small Spartan army. This is where King Leonidas passed on.

King Xerxes with his army continued to match. When they reached the Anthers city, they found that it was deserted as the people who lived there had fled. However, the Athenian Fleet was waiting off the cast by the island of Salamis.

King Xerxes had already assumed victory since they had so many ships. On the contrary, the Athenians had small but very swift ships able to maneuver around. They maneuvered their way and made sure they sunk all the Persian ships forcing King Xerxes to lose and retreat.




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