Explain Why Did Persia Win The Persian Wars

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What if Persia won the Persian Wars? During the Persian Wars, have you ever wanted Persia to win the Persian wars? Persia should've never won the Persian Wars. When Greece won the Persian wars, everything went right with the world. Greece had good strategies, one person (Miltiades) out of the ten generals knew when to attack the Persians. The Greek culture survived when they won. The Greco-Persian Wars or known as The Persian wars, was a time of war between Greece and Persia. (Greco-Persian) The wars continued on from 492-449 BCE. During the generation 522 the 2 kings (Persians), Cyrus the second and Cambyses the second extended there ruling from the Indus Valley to Aegean Sea. When the Lydian King Croesus was defeated, the Persians where defeating small Greek city states one by one. Darius came to power in 522 and his goals where to strengthen the empire and consolidate it. In 500 BCE, there where Greek city states that rose in rebellion against Persian in Anatolia. These was known as the Ionian revolt. Athens and Eritrea came in and sent a small fleet to support this revolt. The Persians used this as a pretext for launching an invasion on The Greek mainland. In 490 a Persian army of 25,000 landed on the plains in Marathon and the Athenians talked to Sparta to join forces against Persia. There where 10 Athenian generals. When the …show more content…

One thing they could've done is to attack in steps. Since Persia had a massive army they should have taken one group and attack Greece. If that first group gets defeated then they would know what there next strategy is io attacking Greece. Instead Persia decided to take there big massive army and attack Greece and loose. Also they should have practiced and trained there army before they attacked Greece. Also Persia kept on attacking Greece for 30 years and still kept on losing. So many Persian solders died trying to defeat Greece, it was a waste of

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