GRECO-PERSIAN WARS

by - February 11, 2020



490–479 B.C.E. Ú GRECO-PERSIAN WARS


In their wars with Persia, the Greek city-states were never a threat to the Persian heartland. The Greeks had been carrying out terrorist attacks on Persian holdings for years. They had attacked Persian cities, set fire to Persian temples, disrupted key trade routes, and pirated merchant ships crossing the Bosphorus. They incited rebellions inside Persian provinces, but perhaps most abhorrent to the Persians was the ease by which the Greeks broke their treaties and betrayed Persia’s trust. Rather than resort to violence Persia tried to keep the Greeks in check by financially supporting Greek politicians who were “pro-Persian, ” But what finally triggered Persia’s wrath was an act rarely mentioned in the West, though well documented, even by the biased Herodotus (Father of History). In 498 B.C.E, Athens carried out a terrorist attack on Sardis, a major Persian city. The Athenians, set fire to the “outlying parts ” of Sardis trapping most of its population “in a ring of fire”, literally killing hundred thousands of innocent civilians.

It is important to note that Persia did not want to conquer Greece, the empire was already overstretched spanning three continents and over twenty-five nations. Many Ionian Greeks were already parts of Persia as protectorates and Persians respected Greek philosophers and had many of them in their employ. Also, the Greek city-states were constantly busy fighting each other all the time and the Persian Kings saw that region as very unstable and left them alone. Persia mainly only attacked Greece as a response to terrorist attacks on Persian holdings (Similar to what the USA did after 9/11).

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