Greco-Persian Wars PDF

# Greco-Persian Wars ## Places to know: - Susa: Persian/Achaemenids. - Persepolis: 500 - Cyrus II Great (winged genius) establish Achaemenid Empire. - Nineven: 540 - Cyrus defeats and supplants Neo-Babylonian Empire. - Pasargadal: allowed some level of re-patriation of exiled people. - Babylon. -...

# Greco-Persian Wars ## Places to know: - Susa: Persian/Achaemenids. - Persepolis: 500 - Cyrus II Great (winged genius) establish Achaemenid Empire. - Nineven: 540 - Cyrus defeats and supplants Neo-Babylonian Empire. - Pasargadal: allowed some level of re-patriation of exiled people. - Babylon. - Judan. - Miletus: Greeks in Ionia under Achaemenids had been ruled by Lydians until Cyrus defeated them. - Naxos: Cyrus' pattern of established local rule didn’t work in Ionia because the Ionian Greeks didn’t have a unified/intact structure of their own. - Eritrea: Cyrus appointed rulers (Tyrants) over Ionian Greeks and it worked well enough for a while until... ## Aristogoras - Tyrant of Miletus under Darius I, the Great (522-486 BC) - A wants peace with Greeks to favor with Darius - 499 BC - Allies himself with Greek exiles from Naxos to take over the island to thereby extend Darius’ dominion. - D gets funding to men from surrounding cities - D doesn't succeed. - D suddenly has unhappy allies with wasted men and money. ## Ionian Revolt - 498 BC - Unnary I cirm-states rebel against Darius I. - Gain support from Athens and Eritred. - Initial success did not last, but Persia puts down revolt, but holds a grudge against Athens and Eritred.