THE PERSIAN WAR The Persians and the Greeks were at war with each other in the Persian war. It started when the Ionians revolt against the Persians and asked Greek to save them. The wars were Marathon‚ Thermopylae‚ Salamis‚ and Plataea. The battle of Marathon was the first war. The Greeks won the war against the Persians. In the war the Persians thought they could sneak attack Athens but the Greeks were waiting for them the whole time. The battle of Thermopylae was the second war. The Persians
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The Persians were a brutish people‚ who wanted nothing more than to conquer and ruin the Greek way of life. The Persians played the Greek city-states against one another in order to inhibit success against their attacks. The Ionian Greeks were conquered by these barbarians‚ and their way of life was threatened. The Greek’s freedom was perishing‚ while the power of the Persian’s continued to expand. The Persians were a tolerant empire with strong leaders and some autonomy though they restricted
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tribe of fighters who left behind a legacy of achievements. The Mongols were the descendants of the famed Empire Builder Ghengis Khan. They have played a more prominent role in world history than any other people of North or Middle Asia. They were able to create a world empire‚ with the help of Ghengis Kahn. Ghengis Kahn had a huge role making the Mongols a world empire. He was a Mongol chieftain who rose to power as kahn. Ghengis Kahn was able to unify and organize the
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The Ottoman Empire was one of the most powerful empires during the 15th and 16th centuries. In 1453‚ the conquest of Constantinople gave the Ottoman Empire control over what had been the Byzantine Empire. The conquering of Constantinople gave the Ottoman’s control of the Balkans. The Ottomans next large conquest was the Arab world. “With the rise of Mehmet II‚ called “the Conqueror (Fatih) ‚ the Ottomans began a new era of conquest that extended the empire’s rule ... over the lands of the Islamic
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While it is true that the western half of the Empire was overrun in the better part of the fifth century CE‚ there was more to the Roman Empire and its collapse than that. Rome was weakened by political turmoil and unmanageable expansion‚ which lead to its division into an Eastern and a Western Roman empires. While the Eastern Empire prospered‚ the Western Empire struggled to stay alive‚ and it was eventually overcome by barbarians. The Eastern Empire continued to live on for another thousand years
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490 B.C. Persian leader‚ darius I‚ sent 25‚000 men to fight 10‚000 Greeks. The Persians were light armored and lacked training‚ they were no match to the Greeks disciplined phalanx Athens won a crushing victory killing more than 6000 men and only losing less than 200 men The battle took place in a plain north east of Athens called marathon Ionia of the coast of Anatolia is a place where Greeks have been long settled‚ however around 546 B.C. the Persians conquered the area. Later the Ionian Greeks
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ISLAMIC EXPANDTION early Islamic Empire expanded due to conquest. As stated from Al-Biladuri‚ “The Battle of the Yarmuk (636)” “Muslim forces took control of Syria in 636 CE when they fought the Eastern Roman Empire (which included Greece)...” The Muslims were able to expand to/conquer Syria after the battle against the Eastern Roman Empire. Another way that the Islamic Empire expanded due to conquest is that many of conquered non-believers began to turn to the Islamic Religion. As stated from
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First of all he is a very good man with the right ideas who was trying to conquer the “new world” (America) in the name of spain. He joined many ships and became very important to Hispaniola. Hernando Cortez was born in 1485 in Spain and helped advance spain’s position in the 1500. Then he died in 1547. It all started very early on when he started reading stories on the newspapers that came out and became captivated him to conquer the America in the name of spain which was in 1504. Later when he was
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victorious outcomes that many European groups did result in while conquering different worlds‚ these operative strategies did not always work for all. Different countries and civilizations clearly have different views and beliefs on the world around them; therefore when the Europeans did not account for this‚ a cultural collision‚ when one or more cultures are integrated into one environment causing disruption‚ was produced. While geography helped the Spaniards conquer the Incas/Aztecs militarily‚ geography
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Around 492 B.C.E. Persia was the most powerful empire in the Mediterranean. They sought revenge towards the Greeks‚ which caused King Darius to send demands to Greece. Athens and Sparta were very hesitant when obeying the demands‚ most of the other city-states were quick to obey. While the Greeks saw what Athens and Sparta did as an act of defiance and it showed pride‚ Darius was obviously not happy. This lead to the Persian Wars‚ which would eventually lead to the Peloponnesian War. Both of these
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