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This 3 page paper explores some of the causes of the Persian Wars and the Peloponnesian Wars during the period 499-404BCE. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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that marked this century in the Mediterranean region. This paper traces that causes of the wars that took place from 499-404 BCE. Discussion Although the prompt is to discuss the
causes of the "Persian wars," the timeframe indicated takes us through the Peloponnesian Wars as well. That is, the Persian wars are usually considered to have occurred from 499 to
about 448; from then until 404 are the Peloponnesian wars. Lets see what happened. The short answer here is that there were two great empires that seemed destined to
come into conflict, and they did: Greece and Persia. They were geographically close and they were both ambitious; conflict seemed inevitable, and in 499 BC, it broke out (The Persian
Wars: Greeces finest hours). If we look at this in more detail, we find that the origins lie in the desire for conquest but also in political intrigue. By
the late 500s BC, "Darius the Great ruled over an immense realm, from western India to eastern Europe. In 513 BC Darius, for the first time, conquered Thrace and Macedonia"
(Green, 1998). King Alexander I of Macedonia became the vassal of Darius; however, the conquest of Asia Minor in 546 BC "left the Ionian Greeks under Persian rule, with the
other Greeks were free, a state of affairs that was going to cause trouble sooner or later" (Green, 1998). Persian governors of the provinces in Asia Minor "installed tyrants in
most ... Ionian cities and forced Greeks to pay taxes for the King of Kings" (Green, 1998). The actual start of conflict is usually considered to be 499 BC, when
the Ionian Revolt broke out (Green, 1998). It began in Miletus and was instigated by a man named Aristagoras, who urged rebellion; Ionian cities "threw out the tyrants that the
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