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Darius I "the Great" (549-486 BCE) was a king of Persia who ruled for 35 years, from September 522 BCE to October 486 BCE. He was the third Achaemenian king and was considered by many to be “the greatest of the Achaemenian kings..
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Persia,under te rule of Darius.(r.522-486 ,)And there main land was Europe and had subjugated lonia,and beginning of the 5th century BCE.
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in (480 BC,)battle in the Greco-Persian Wars and salamis and port-city of Piraeus.By 480 the Piraeus kings Xeroxes.
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By the first years of the 5th century BCE, Persia, under the rule of Darius (r. 522-486 BCE), was already expanding into mainland Europe and had subjugated Thrace and Macedonia. Next in king Darius’ sights were Athens and the rest of Greece. Just why Greece was coveted by Persia is unclear...
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The Thirty Years' Peace was a treaty, signed between the ancient Greek city-states Athens and Sparta, in the year 446/445 BC. The treaty brought an end to the conflict commonly known as the First Peloponnesian War which had been raging since c.460 BC.
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Siracusa was always the most important and powerful Greek city in Sicily and in 413BC it became arguably the most powerful city in the whole of the Mediterranean.
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The Peloponnesian War (431-404 B.C.) took place between the Athenian empire and Peloponnesian league lead by the Spartans. The Peloponnesian league was a coalition of the Thebes, Corinth and Sparta.
