HIST 2850 Lecture 6: Lecture 6 - The Persian Wars
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Wonderfully advanced and cultural civilization not barbarians, as the greeks would have everyone believe. Ionians sent messages to their ethnic cousins to ask for help. Sparta refused, but athens agreed because in 508, they had just started democracy, and wanted to prove that this form of rule wasn"t weak. Athens sent ships and money and this revolt failed spectacularly. This was a problem for darius i he couldn"t let insigni cant rebels get away with defying his identity of divinity god-kings would have to show complete control. Darius i decided that he wanted to ght athens, since they supported the ionians sent an invasion eet along the coast and the invasion eet made it halfway and then sunk and destroyed but he didn"t give up. Sent messengers to the principle cities of greece and spartans kicked them down wells. Athenians put them on trail and then executed them pretty much every other greek-state agreed.
