May 29, 2018 · Persian Wars, 500 BC–449 BC, series of conflicts fought between Greek states and the Persian Empire. The writings of Herodotus [1], who was born c.484 BC, are the great …

But the Persian defeat at the hands of the Greeks during the so-called Persian Wars was only one chapter of a reign plagued by strife and setbacks. Early Life, First Years as King Born in 520 …

The origins of the Persian Wars lay in the support offered by Athens to Greek rebels in Western Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) in a region known as Ionia, which was part of the Persian …

RUSSO-PERSIAN WARS. Disputes over territories along the southwestern coast of the Caspian Sea and in the eastern Transcaucasus led to war between Russia and Persia from 1804 to …

Persian Gulf Wars, two conflicts involving Iraq and U.S.-led coalitions in the late 20th and early 21st cent. The First Persian Gulf War, also known as the Gulf War, Jan.–Feb., 1991, was an …

Jun 8, 2018 · Persian Gulf War [1] JUDSON KNIGHT The Persian Gulf War [2], in which a coalition led by the United States [3] drove Iraqi forces out of Kuwait [4] in early 1991, was one …

The Persian Gulf War (1991) was caused by Iraq's invasion of Kuwait on 2 August 1990, and had two major phases.The first phase was Operation Desert Shield—a largely defensive operation …

Athens had begun experimenting with democracy in the sixth century bce, with the democratic reforms of the Athenian statesman Cleisthenes (c, 570-508 bce). These measures were …

Mardonius (märdō´nēəs), d. 479 BC, Persian general; son-in-law of Darius I. Darius sent him (492 BC) to retaliate against Eretria and Athens for aiding the Ionians in the Persian Wars, but his …

Herodotus states his subject at the beginning: the Persian Empire's invasion of the Greek city-states which began with the Persian takeover of the cities on the coast of Asia Minor and the …