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persian wars (449-449 BCE)

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  • Sparta military
    750 BCE

    Sparta military

    . 750 BC, Sparta embarked on a steady expansion, first by subduing Amyclae and the other settlements of Laconia, and later, in the First Messenian War, conquering the fertile country of Messenia. By the beginning of the 7th century BC, Sparta was, along with Argos, the dominant power in the Peloponnese
  • conflicts
    499 BCE

    conflicts

    between the Achaemenid Empire of Persia and Greek city-states that started in 499 BC and lasted until 449 BC.
  • Battle of Marathon
    490 BCE

    Battle of Marathon

    The Athenians’ feelings are best expressed by Aeschylus, who fought in the Persian wars, in his tragic play The Persians: “On, sons of the Hellenes! Fight for the freedom of your country! Fight for the freedom of your children and of your wives, for the gods of your fathers and for the sepulchers of your ancestors! ”. The Athenians was anticipating reinforcements promised by Sparta. But they knew The Persians, expecting as easy a victory as they had won against enemies before.
  • spartans sacrifice
    480 BCE

    spartans sacrifice

    A force of 300 against a legendary army of millions, the Spartans knew that whatever allies they could rally in their march from Laconia to the natural chokepoint of Thermopylae would not be enough. Instead of fighting to win, the Spartans were merely fighting for time. Forbidden by religious obligations to field an army during the festival of the Carneia, the polity would not commit its full fighting force to the battlefield until the celebration was over.
  • Battle of salamis
    480 BCE

    Battle of salamis

    was a navel battle fought between the Greeks and Persians around 480 B.C,the Persians stayed in Athens and burned down the city.Athens had a very advanced and powerful navy and used this to their advantage.The Greeks led the exhausted Persians into the ocean and defeated them,by ramming their well built ships into the Persians ships this Greek and was the major turning point in the Persians wars.
  • Delian league
    478 BCE

    Delian league

    The Delian League, founded in 478 was an association of Greek city-states, members numbering between 150,173, to 330 under the leadership of Athens, whose purpose was to continue fighting the Persian Empire after the Greek victory in the Battle of Plataea at the end of the Second Persian invasion of Greece.
  • Peloponnesian wars
    430 BCE

    Peloponnesian wars

    was an ancient Greek war fought by the Delian League led by Athens against the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta. Historians have traditionally divided the war into three phases. In the first phase, the Archidamian War, Sparta launched repeated invasions of Attica, while Athens took advantage of its naval supremacy to raid the coast of the Peloponnese and attempt to suppress signs of unrest in its empire
  • Battle of Leuctra
    371 BCE

    Battle of Leuctra

    was a battle fought on 6 July 371 BC between the Boeotian led by Thebans and the Spartans along with their allies amidst the post-Corinthian War conflict. The battle took place in the neighborhood of Leuctra, a village in Boeotia in the territory of Thespian. The Theban victory shattered Sparta’s immense influence over the Greek peninsula, which Sparta had gained since its victory in the Peloponnese War.