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How long did the Persian war last?

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The Persian Wars (sometimes known as the Greco-Persian Wars) were a series of conflicts between Greek city-states and the Persian Empire, beginning in 502 BCE and running some 50 years, until 449 BCE.


Also asked, when did the Persian War start and end?

The Greco-Persian Wars (also often called the Persian Wars) were a series of conflicts between the Achaemenid Empire and Greek city-states that started in 499 BC and lasted until 449 BC.

Likewise, how did the Persian War end? Although the Persian invasion was ended by the battles at Plataea and Mycale, fighting between Greece and Persia continued for another 30 years. The league had mixed success, and in 449 bce the Peace of Callias finally ended the hostilities between Athens and its allies and Persia.

Similarly one may ask, how long did the Peloponnesian war last?

10 years

How did the Persian war start?

The Greco-Persian Wars were two conflicts that occurred between 490 and 479 BCE and pitted the Persian Empire against the Greek city-states. The conflict began after Athens and Eretria gave assistance to the Ionians in their rebellion against Persia and its ruler, Darius.

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What was the result of the Persian War?

Delian League
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Why was the Persian War important?

Athens became a major naval power in preparation for the Persian invasion. After the war, they were still a major military power and became the leaders of an alliance that morphed into a de facto Athenian Empire. The anti-Persian alliances polarized Greece into two sides that eventually led to the Peloponessian War.

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Did Sparta have 2 Kings?

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What were the 4 major battles of the Persian War?

Several of the most famous and significant battles in history were fought during the Wars, these were at Marathon, Thermopylae, Salamis, and Plataea, all of which would become legendary. The Greeks were, ultimately, victorious and their civilization preserved.

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What were the causes and effects of the Persian War?

The Persian wars against Greece were caused because the Darius, the Persian king, wanted to expand their empire. King Darius was humiliated and wanted to continue on which caused the series of wars. Effect. The wars with the Persians affected ancient Greece greatly.

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What battle ended the Persian War?

479 BCE, Plataea: Persians retreating from their loss at Salamis encamped at Plataea, a small town northwest of Athens, where combined Greek forces badly defeated the Persian army, led by Mardonius. This defeat effectively ended the second Persian invasion.

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Did the Spartans won the Persian War?

Spartans were defeated by Persians, but the city of Sparta was not. An army including a contingent of Spartans (who were greatly outnumbered by other Greeks, but you never hear about them) was defeated at Thermopylae in 480 BC.

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What was the cause of the second Persian War?

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How did the Peloponnesian War end the golden age?

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What is the main cause of the Peloponnesian War?

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Who defeated Sparta?

Sparta was the principal enemy of Athens during the Peloponnesian War (between 431 and 404 BC), from which it emerged victorious. The defeat by Thebes in the Battle of Leuctra in 371 BC ended Sparta's prominent role, though it maintained its political independence until the Roman conquest of Greece in 146 BC.

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Did Athens beat Sparta?

War reignited decisively around 415 B.C. when Athens received a call to help allies in Sicily against invaders from Syracuse, where an Athenian official defected to Sparta, convincing them that Athens was planning to conquer Italy. Sparta sided with Syracuse and defeated the Athenians in a major sea battle.

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Why did Athens lose the Peloponnesian War?

In 430 BC an outbreak of a plague hit Athens. The plague ravaged the densely packed city, and in the long run, was a significant cause of its final defeat. The plague wiped out over 30,000 citizens, sailors and soldiers, including Pericles and his sons. Roughly one-third to two-thirds of the Athenian population died.

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What happened after Peloponnesian War?

After the Peloponnesian War, the Spartans set up an oligarchy in Athens, which was called the Thirty. It was short-lived, and democracy was restored. And due to an ill-conceived Spartan foreign policy, Athens was able to recover.

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Why did Sparta fight Athens?

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How many died in the Peloponnesian War?

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Abby Fontaiña

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Where did the Spartans come from?

Greece

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Who fought each other in the Persian War?

The Battle of Thermopylae (/θ?rˈm?p?liː/ th?r-MOP-i-lee; Greek: Μάχη τ?ν Θερμοπυλ?ν, Máchē tōn Thermopylōn) was fought between an alliance of Greek city-states, led by King Leonidas of Sparta, and the Persian Empire of Xerxes I over the course of three days, during the second Persian invasion of Greece.

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Who destroyed Athens?

Xerxes I

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