The Greco-Persian Wars: Key Battles and Their Outcomes

This essay provides a comprehensive analysis of the Greco-Persian and Peloponnesian Wars. It begins by detailing the major battles of the Greco-Persian Wars, including the Battle of Marathon and the Battle of Thermopylae, and explains their significance in shaping ancient Greece. The essay the...Read More

There were several battles between the Greeks and the Persians before they were independent
once again. The first major battle was Ancient Greece is said to be civilized by the period of the
history belonged to the Greeks. This Period was the starting of the early middle ages and
Byzantine era. Late Bronze Age collapse of Mycenaean Greek and Greek urban poleis was
formed in 8th century BC. This period was followed by the classical Greece. The Greco – Persian
wars was in 492 – 449 B.C.E. The war was fought by the Greeks and Persia over the half a
century. In 490 and 479, the fighting between Persia and Greece was executed against mainland
Greece. Further, I will discuss the wars between the Persia and Greek as well as the results of
these wars.
Greece and Persia fought many battels between the period of 492 -449 BCE .I will explain the
first battel which was battel of marathon in 490 BCE . Athens need solid navy that it had
amongst its golden age . During this war , Athenians want help , so they sent Pheidippides , an
expert sprinter , for Sparta help . However , the Sparta did not sent soldiers and the fight was
looking depressions for the Greece . Athenians did not lose their trust yet, they got help from
Plataea. They sent 9,000 warriors to Athens at marathon . the Greeks arranged the hoplite to
defeat the Persians . Toward the end of the battel , Persians lost their 6,400 men , while 192
Athenians were killed . Philippines gone from marathon to Athens to give the news of their
victory but he died after giving the news . Furthermore, for the first time, a battle was fought on
which our whole modern way of life seemed to depend If the Athenians had lost at Marathon,
Athens would have been destroyed, and then (many people think) Greece might never have gone
on to develop the peak of its civilization, a peak whose fruits we moderns have inherited
The second important fight of the Persian wars the fight of the Thermopylae , which was
fought in 480 BCE. There were 7,000 men were controlled by king Leonidas ( Sparta ) , and his
300 Spartans were the “pillar “ pf the army . this fight was mostly between the Greeks (led by
Sparta )and Xerxes , the Persian leader . The Greeks did not win the battel due to a Phocian
traitor that told Xerxes a way near the mountains pass they were stuck in .Although every soldier
had lost their lives in fighting , this battel encouraged the Greek to get the freedom. Additionally
, there were many other battels like salamis , himera , Mycale and Plataea and the whole fight

was win by Greeks . Finally , the Persians war finished , in 478 BCE, and the Greeks were free
from Persian rule .
After , the Persian war , Sparta and Athens appeared as the two most great city states in
ancient Greece . However, Sparta became jealous on Athens because the Athenians had got most
of the praise for the victory against the Persians. Athens made an alliance which name was
Delian League .Even though many of the city states were involved in the alliance , most of the
money from the Delian league was used to glorify Athens . after that Spartans were sad that
Athens was using all of the money , and also they were not the head of the League . Spartans
mad their own alliance which name was Peloponnesian league. Due to the conflict between
Athens and Sparta this led to civil war.
The Peloponnesian war begun by two city states Athens and Sparta in old Greece. this
war happened after the finish of the Persian war in 449 BCE. The reason of the war this Sparta
felt jealousy from Athens because they have more power. Then, Spartans made their own league
which name is Peloponnesian war . There were three reason significant causes for the
Peloponnesian war the first was that Athens Was threating Sparta for military reason after the
Persian war . Athens was sovereign it is patterns an neighbouring city states. During the helot
transformation, Sparta hurt Athens. The outcome of the Peloponnesian war was that Athens was
conquered by Sparta. After the war, both satisfies had lost their capacity then them never get
more grounded from the desolates of the war of the war and that the way prepared for Macedonia
Strength. The contention between Athens and Sparta was inescapable. The Athenian's were
Decline Sparta's military strength, Sparta ended up grudging of Athens and began offending
The Athenians, Sparta and Athens were of two separate political belief systems.
After the Persians wars Athens rose as a regional power and complete the Delian League
around 478BCE, which was made out of 200 individuals to counter any rick coming from Persia.
Inevitably the Delian League went from a gathering of equivalent individuals to an
Athenian Domain. This was seen be the concealment of Naxos a part who wished to leave the
Delian Alliance and the development of the treasury from the holy island of Delos to Athens.
Athens begun to solidify this newly discovered power by making a solid naval force and
vanquishing all the lost region in the Aegean and notwithstanding growing their domain into the

waterfront districts of Asia Minor. The Athenian maritime strength was additionally merged by
the Athenian obtaining of Corcyra's naval force making Athens by a long shot the best Greek
maritime power. This was viewed as an extraordinary risk by Sparta as they were a basically
land situated military. They saw the Athenian naval force as a risk that they were unfit to
counter as they didn't have the monetary capacity to construct a naval force sufficiently
incredible to match Athens.
Secondly Athens was beginning to abuse its new found power by dominating other city
states. As the years passed after the Persian Wars the other members of the Delian League
wanted to stop having to send men and ships to aid in protection from Persia, Athens decided to
capitalize on this and only required them to send money instead. This increased Athens
dominance over its fellow city states as they no longer had military power and now had to pay a
tribute to Athens for protection. Athens became greedy and no longer allowed members of the
Delian League to leave. When Naxos tried to leave the Delian League Athens invaded and
crushed them. Naxos was forced to strip down its walls and lost its naval fleet as well as its vote
in the League. Athens also began to meddle in the affairs of city states not in the League such as
the dispute between Megara and Corinth were Athens sided with Megara to settle a boundary
dispute.