CLA160H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Spartathlon, The Persians, Ionian Revolt
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The persians inviade greece, the greeks win, and the persians run home. The war had huge policital and economic costs, but it also had a great impact how how the greeks felt about themselves. They were originally part of an irani tribe. They were absorbed into near mideastern empires for centures, until cyrus the great lead the persians to concour the empire of the meads into the persian empire. He then comncoured the linian empire, and also conqoured the neo-babylon emire. The his son took over, and concoured even more. The empire then fell into the hands of derias. This time is when the conflict with the greeks. Xerxes had given up any hope of concouring greece, but he still ruled the. The empire continued on after his death, with the same form, until it was later cincoured by alexander the great. These wars put an end to the serious prospect that greece was going to take them over.
