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City where the Greeks defeated the Persians and gave us the name of the running race?
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Not the Greeks, but the Greek city-states of Athens and Plataea, The battle in 490 BCE was on the plain of Marathon (not a city) 26 miles north of Athens.
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What is the city where the Greeks defeated the Persians and gave us the name of the running race?
Not a city - the Plain of Marathon.
What was the name of the city where the Greeks defeated the Persians?
Plataea.
Who were the Greeks defeated the Persians?
The Greek city-states of peninsular Greece and the Aegean.
What is the name of the battle in 490 BC that the Greeks were defeated by Persia?
It was not the Greeks but the Greek city-state of Eretria.The Persians then switched to Athens which defeated them at Marathon.
What did being defeated by the Greeks cost the Persians?
Control of the Greek city-states in Asia Minor - however they took them back 50 years later as the Greeks fought each other.
Why did the Persians and the Greeks react differently to the end of the Persian war?
The Persians went back to running their empire responsibly and peacefully. The Greek city-states went back to fighting each other.
Which two rival armies worked together to defeat the Persians in 499 BC?
The Persians were not defeated by anyone in 499 BCE.
What views did the Persians and Greeks have about government?
The Persians Empire had Monarchy. The Greek city-states had Monarchy, Oligarchy, Tyranny, Democracy.
Did Sparta defeat Persia?
No. The Spartans defeated about 500,000 Persians along with about 1,700 Greeks. Later on in the war, they withdrew to defend Sparta and lost the war. The Spartans alone did not fight or defeat Persians and Persian allies. Many Greek city states allied and defeated Persians in land and sea battles in two separate wars. The only Greek defeat from the most famous battles in the two separate Persian invasions was in Thermopylae. And even then, few thousand Greeks died, including plus or minus 300 Spartans, while it is believed more than 20,000 Persians and their allies that included many Greeks, died in Thermopylae. So it was an honorable defeat.
What happened to the Persians at Plataea?
They were defeated by a coalition of Greek city-states led by Sparta.
What was the city of Marathon that the Greeks fought off the Persians in?
There was no city of Marathon. It was a plain 26 miles north of Athens.
Is it true that the Persians were never able to defeat the Greeks?
No. The Persians put down the Ionian Revolt by the Greek cities in Asia Minor 499-493 BCE, captured Eretria in 490 BCE, and defeated the combined fleet of the Greek city-states at Artemesion in 480 BCE, then captured Athens.
