This was a very good chance for Darius to extend his empire and he did so by acquiring the islands of East Aegean and the Propontis. In 493 BC the Persians defeated the remains of the Ionian revolt. The Ionian revolt lasted for about half a decade.Īfter the Ionian revolt ended, Darius decided to expand his empire's territories. But the Ionians were defeated in the Battle of Lade in 494 BC. Seeing that strong rulers like Persia could lose two consecutive times the Persian occupied Greek city-states decided to revolt.
Aristagoras was a tyrant of Miletus known to be close to King of Persia. When Persia decided to attack Naxos, Aristagoras was appointed to lead the battle. Macedon sought a peace treaty with Persia in 510 BC. He along with his army returned back to Persia.ĭarius move proved useful to him, as the other Greek states thought that they were next in line to be attacked. Later Darius, Cambyses son who became the king, attacked the Scythians, but he lost. His son Cambyses supported Cyrus and he too captured Egypt and some Greek islands between Anatolia and Greece, the most important one being the island of Samos. He increased the taxes and appointed tyrants in these regions. The residents of these were then called Ionians. The cities that were dependent of Lydia automatically became helpless and Cyrus next move was to capture those cities. During his reign his first captured Lydia, which lay along the coast of Anatolia. During 539 BC Cyrus The Great ruled Persia and most of West Asia. The Ionian Revolt initiated the First Major Persian War. Even as we say Greco-Persian Wars its not always that all of Greece fought against Persian as their strength and authority was much greater. It lasted for about half a decade from 499 BC to 488 BC. The Greco-Persian Wars are a sequence of wars fought between the great empire of Persia and the coalition of Greek city-states. The Ionian Revolt: The start of First Persian War?
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