Essays Tagged: "Sardis"
Greece-Persia wars.
.Athens sent 20 ships to aid the Ionians. Before the Persians crushed the revolt, the Greeks burned Sardis, capital of Lydia. Angered, Darius determined to conquer Athens and extend his empire westwar ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History
Persian Invasions
King Darius, being very wroth with the Athenians for their share in the burning of Sardis, sent a great army across the Hellespont to march through Thrace against Athens, under his yo ... ll parts of his huge empire he mustered his hosts first in Cappadocia, and marched thence by way of Sardis to the Hellespont. And because, when the bridge was a-building, a great storm wrecked it, he ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
Greece: The Greek World 500-400BC The Ionian Revolt
he Naxian exiles an offerAristagoras needed help with his planAristagoras proposed to the satrap at Sardis (Artaphernes) that in returning the Naxian exiles Persia might gain control of NaxosWere they ... the subjection of Athens to himself and Darius’The Athenians had urged Artaphernes (satrap at Sardis) not to listen to the exiled Pisistratid but he demanded that the Athenians take him back or ...
Subjects: History Term Papers