Had they suffered a defeat, there would have been no stopping the Persian army: they would have extended Persia’s influence over all of continental Europe. ... But if Persia had won the Battle of Salamis in 480 BC, Europe would likely be known today as
“West Asia
,” and its population would be mostly Muslim.
What if the Persians won the battle of Salamis?
Had they suffered a defeat, there would have been no stopping the Persian army: they would have extended Persia’s influence over all of continental Europe. ... But if Persia had won the Battle of Salamis in 480 BC, Europe would likely be known today as
“West Asia
,” and its population would be mostly Muslim.
Who should have won the Greco Persian Wars?
Though the outcome of battles seemed to tip in Persia’s favor (such as the famed battle at Thermopylae where a limited number of Spartans managed to wage an impressive stand against the Persians),
the Greeks won
the war. There are two factors that helped the Greeks defeat the Persian Empire.
Who would win the Persian War?
The Athenians were commanded by 10 generals, the most daring of whom was Miltiades. While the Persian cavalry was away, he seized the opportunity to attack.
The Greeks
won a decisive victory, losing only 192 men to the Persians’ 6,400 (according to the historian Herodotus).
What was the only Persian victory?
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Battle of Marathon
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Athens Plataea Achaemenid Empire
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Commanders and leaders
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Who won the Plataea war?
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Date August 479 BC
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Result
Greek victory
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Territorial changes Persia loses control of Attica and Boeotia
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Who won Salamis Battle?
Battle of Salamis, (480 bc), battle in the Greco-Persian Wars in which
a Greek fleet
defeated much larger Persian naval forces in the straits at Salamis, between the island of Salamis and the Athenian port-city of Piraeus.
Who destroyed Athens?
The Achaemenid destruction of Athens was accomplished by
the Achaemenid Army of Xerxes I
during the Second Persian invasion of Greece, and occurred in two phases over a period of two years, in 480–479 BCE.
Did the Greeks beat the Persians?
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Date 499–449 BC
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Location Mainland Greece, Thrace, Aegean Islands, Asia Minor, Cyprus and Egypt
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Result Greek victory
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Territorial changes Macedon, Thrace and Ionia regain independence from Persia
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What were Greek foot soldiers called?
Hoplite, heavily armed ancient Greek foot soldier whose function was to fight in close formation.
What were the 3 Persian wars?
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.
Who won the second Persian War?
After another battle between the Greeks and
Persians
in Cyprus, in which the Greeks were victorious, a formal agreement between the two took place in which the Persians would not attack Greece or its colonies in Asia Minor, and that Greece would never again attack Persia.
Who won the Spartan Persian War?
After a series of political negotiations it became clear that the Persians would not gain victory through diplomacy and the two armies met at Plataea in August 479 BCE.
The Greeks
, fielding the largest hoplite army ever seen, won the battle and finally ended Xerxes’ ambitions in Greece.
Who betrayed Sparta?
In popular media. In the 1962 film The 300 Spartans,
Ephialtes
was portrayed by Kieron Moore and is depicted as a loner who worked on a goat farm near Thermopylae. He betrays the Spartans to the Persians out of greed for riches, and, it is implied, unrequited love for a Spartan girl named Ellas.
Who is the king of Sparta?
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Leonidas I
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Marble statue, possibly of Leonidas, (5th century BC), Sparta, Archæological Museum of Sparta, Greece
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King of Sparta
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Reign 489–480 BC
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Predecessor Cleomenes I
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Who won the first Persian War?
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Date 492 – 490 BC.
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Result
Persian victory
in Thrace and Macedon Persian failure to capture Athens
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