Persian War

Persian War ends

499 BCE

The Persian war had ended and the Greeks had won their victory within all the battles the Greeks had fought.

#1 Battle of Marathon

490 BCE

In an early September of 490 BCE the Persian Empire had a battle between the Greeks and with Darius. The Greeks have won the battle, and Pheidippides had ran 26 miles from the battle of Marathon all the way to the Athens to tell them the news. The Marathon had name the battle: Greek Fighting Formation.

#3 Battle of Salamis

480 BCE

In September 29 in the year of the 480 BCE the Greeks had their final battle during the Persian War. The Greek city-states had fought against the Persian Naval. Once again the Greeks had won the Persian War.

#2 Battle of Thermopylae

480 BCE

The battle of Thermopylae happened because Greece had reunited to stop Xerxes because they did not wanted Xerxes to take the Athens way from them. Sparta had held a mountain pass, then had found after 3 days a secret passage around the mountain pass that was given by someone who was a Greek traitor.

The Persian War Start

449 BCE

The Persians wanted to conquer 3 times Greece but had failed too. Instead they wanted to get their revenge on the Athens after when the Athens had helped one of the Persian colonies.