Greece and the Persian Empire

             Greece and the Persian Empire were enormous rivals in the 5th Century AD. Greece was a country of culturally and politically beauty that was getting stronger. Persia was a country that was getting weaker and was going through many changes. These two countries had many conflicts that inflicted the way that they were operating their county and government. Every powerful country was trying to get more powerful, obtain more land, trade, and earn money. These two countries finally clashed when Persian had the reigns of Greece. As A.T. Olmstead states in his book History of the Persian Empire:
             With the more populous, more wealthy, and more cultured part of the Greek world already under Persian Control, incorporation of the remainder must have seemed to Darius inevitable. A few more frontier expeditions by his generals, he thought, should be quite enough to bring those Greeks who still retained their independence to acknowledge the suzerainty of the Great King.
             Greece was a country along the coast of Asia Minor that came under the control of the Lydians and their king, Croesus. Later on, the Persians conquered the Lydians and all the states that belonged to the Lydians became subject to the Persians. The Greeks were unhappy with the way they were treated, and did not respect the Persians. The Persians tried to control their new subject-states very closely; and they even appointed individuals to rule the states as tyrants, the Greeks did not respond well to this. They were not happy and forced a rebellion. So from that point on, the Greeks and Persians were at each others throats, resulting at war. The term conflict is defined as a competitive or opposing action of incompatibles or an antagonistic state or action. The term empire is defined as a major political unit having a territory of great extent or a number of territories or peoples under a single sovereign authority. These two terms are significant with this theme because there wa...

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