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The king of Persia, Darius I, invaded Greece to avenge the defeat of his father, Xerxes.
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September 490 BCE, the Greek Army managed to defeat Darius's Persian Army in the plains of Marathon.
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The Battle of Salamis was one the Greco-Persian wars. The Greeks defeated a large portion of Persian naval forces
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The Battle of Thermopylae was the first between Persia and Greece. Sparta led the Greeks into battle. The Spartans used clever military strategies. They continued to fight. Soon the Greeks lost the battle from being overwhelmed about how out-numbered they were against the Persians.
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The Thirty Years Peace Treaty was signed between Athens and Sparta. The treaty ended conflict between the two states.
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A plague broke out in Greece. Pericles lost both of his sons, and died two years after the Great Peloponnesian War began.
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Megara and Athens were allies, but Megara sided against them during the Great Peloponnesian War. Athens then seized Nisaea. Megara took it back, and Athens sent a force of 1000 men. Megara and Athens engaged in a battle. Athens won the battle.
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Sparta destroyed Athens's forces and won the war with Persian support. Athens was left in a terrible state after their defeat.
