In 480 BC, Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. For seventy years, victory - rapid, spectacular victory - had seemed the birthright of the Persian Empire. In the space of a single generation, they had swept across the...
The Persian Empire was a series of ancient civilizations that inhabited modern day Iran. While Cyrus the Great founded the Persian empire in 550 B.C., Xerxes I greatly diminished the Empire's strength when he tried to invade Greece in 480 B.C....
Establishment and expansion of the Achaemenian Empire (559–500bce) The Ionian Revolt (499–493bce) The Persian attack and the Battle of Marathon (490bce) The expedition of Xerxes (480–479bce) The Greek offensive and the Peace of Callias (478–449) ...
What caused the Persian Empire to fall?Question:What caused the Persian Empire to fall?Xerxes I:Xerxes I was the son of Darius I, and he was born in 518 BC. Despite not being the first born son, Darius I chose Xerxes as his successor when he left to quell a rebellion in Egypt in ...
The Persian War, also known as the Greco-Persian Wars, refers to a series of conflicts that occurred between the Greek city-states and the Persian Empire in the 5th century BC. These wars were significant not only for their military impact but also fortheir cultural, political, and historical...
Twitter Google Share on Facebook Persian Wars Persian Wars,500 B.C.–449 B.C., series of conflicts fought between Greek states and the Persian Empire. The writings ofHerodotus, who was born c.484 B.C., are the great source of knowledge of the history of the wars. At their beginning ...
PERSIAN EMPIRE, 550-330 BCThe article presents a timeline related to the decline of the Persian empire with respect to its Greek opponents from 333-550 B.C.Military History
After the conquests of Alexander of Macedon and the fall of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire, theParthianstook power in Persia. This empire inherited the previous Persian domains and lasted from 247 BC to 224 AD. The Parthians were not city dwellers but could trace their lineages back to the ...
波斯帝国史简介(AbriefhistoryofthePersianEmpire) HistoryofPersianEmpire InPersia,manyempireshavebeenestablished,flourished,anddeclinedinhistory. 1,theAchaemenidDynasty(550BC-330BC) TheAchaemenidEmpire,alsoknownas"thefirstPersianempire".559BCCyrusIIthePersianAchaemenidDynastyestablishedaunified.CyrusIIdefeatedtheMede...
During the ten-year respite that followed, the Athenians built a large fleet on the initiative of the democratic leader Themistocles. A new Persian campaign in 480 was headed by King Xerxes. After breaking through the Greek defenses at the mountain pass of Thermopylae (the Spartan king Leonida...