HISTORY 1M03 Lecture 3: Persian Wars
7 Jan 2018
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In 508, the people"s revolution at athens was threatened by outside force. The people had risen up against sparta"s attempt to gain control over athenian affairs, so now the athenians, facing an assault from greece"s most powerful state, turned for support to the most powerful state in the world, persia. Persia was the ruler of the largest empire the world had yet known, an empire that had arisen in an astonishingly short time, in a seemingly unstoppable wave of conquests. Only fifty years earlier, in 559, cyrus ii had become king of the small kingdom of persia. By his death in 530, he had acquired an empire that stretched from india to ionia to the red sea, and had become known as cyrus the great. Darius i the great, extended persian rule further: into. Now the athenians sent ambassadors to darius to ask for persian protection.
