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But, as happened with the ionians and other greek city states, they might have collaborated with the persians in an uneasy truce.
As such tom holland doesn’t just start with the persians, but begins with the ethnogenesis of the medes in the zagros mountains.
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The persians ships, having been distributed into two groups, were attacked and sunk.
Unable to make a dent against the horseman, they struggled back onto the ships and returned.
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Aristeides was given command of the hoplites and the athenians prepared for another marathon.
In 559 bc, cyrus came on the throne of the persians.
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persian, greek, first, most and good. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
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- This product had a total of 627 reviews as of our last analysis date on Aug 28 2021.
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Difficult to read because tom uses a full range of vocabulary that stretches me to the limits
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The greeks by contrast are every bit the squalid backwater the persians disdained backbiting oath breaking bizarrely nationalist over the small picture and disdainful of the large
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The stands at thermopylae and marathon the battle of salamis are all held up as great events in a cultural division of east and west monumental in the birth of what a conservative view of history might call western civilization
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Beginning with the war against the assyrian empire by a handful of tribes in the mountains who called themselves ‘aryans’ the book is also a history of persia beginning with darius and of sparta and athens roughly starting with solon and cleisthenes who brought about the first democratic reforms in athens
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Athenian democracy was the result of economic and social conflict that had greatly increased inequality and weakened the city state and the first constitutional system was a desperate attempt to curb these excesses
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The idea is that since the next two hundred years or so from 480 bc onwards saw the flowering of athenian democracy and the coming of men like socrates plato aristotle aeschylus euclid and others who laid the foundations of science democracy and philosophy had greece lost the wars all of the ensuing history of western civilization might have been utterly different and greatly impoverished
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Not only is history unpredictable but it ignores the fact that darius xerxes and the persians were not genocidal maniacs who would have killed every greek man woman and child as a matter of course had they won
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In addition sometimes the tyrants who ruled the greek city states themselves were so corrupt cruel and incompetent that people welcomed outside interference
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