The Persian War: The Ionian Revolt and the Battle of Marathon

The Greeks lost the first fight with the Persians. The second attempt by the invasion of Persia was a Greek marathon 490 BC. General Persian Datis and Artaphernes had 48,000 men and several boats in their camp. Athens' general, Miltiades, has 10,000 soldiers. Their 1000 soldiers are allied with Plata. Persia's idea was to use their shooters to reduce their troops and use the cavalry to complete the Greeks. The plan of Miltiades was to attack them around them after tempting the Persian army.

The resistance of the Ionians caused the so-called Persian war between the Greeks and the Persians. The increasingly dissatisfied with the large pocket of Ionia living in Persia, the revolt is imminent. The first thing an aggressive Ionian must do is to destroy the tyrants of the city of Ionia and to establish a democratic state in their place. The Ionians were not alone, the Athenians sent twenty ships, and a small city in Eretria succeeded in sending five ships to help the Ionians. In 498 BC, the Persia headquarters of Sadis was attacked. An unexpected fire broke out and the city was destroyed. The Ionians failed when retreating from the burning city of Sardis. They fought against the Persian army at Ephesus and were defeated. He got angry when the news returned to Darius king of Persia king Athens and filtered. He told the servant to repeat the word "to remember the Athenians" three times a day. Uprising with 494 siege of Miley

The Greeks who lived in Persia on the Aegean coast of Asia Minor were called Ionians. In 499 BC the Ionians began a riot by the Persian empire tyrant, the tyrant of the country of Bolivia, Arista Golas. With the help of Athens and Eretria on the mainland of Greece, the Ionians burned the city of Persia, Sardis. However, in 494 BC Darius of the king of Persia destroyed the Ionian fleet Rad by rebellion and destroyed milli city. And the Ionian uprise was crushed. Now Darius voiced attention to Athens and Eretria and pledged to pay for the failing rebellion.