Ancient Greece: Wars!

• The greo-Persian wars are a sequence of wars fought between the great empire of Persia and the coalition of Greek city-states! 
• The Ionian Revolt intitated the first major Persian war./During 539 BC Cyrus The Great ruled Persia and most of West Asia!
• The cities that were dependent of Lydia automatically became helpless and Cyrus next move was to capture those cities. The residents of these were then called Ionians. Ionia is today based in Modern Turkey!
• Cyrus was cruel ruler. He increased the taxes and appointed tyrants in these regions.
  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.!
• Later Darius, Cambyses son who became the king, attacked the Scythians, but he lost. He along with his army returned back to Persia.
• Seeing that strong rulers like Persia could lose two consecutive times the Persian occupied Greek city-states decided to revolt. This is known as the Ionian revolt.
• But the Ionians were defeated in the Battle of Lade in 494 BC. The Ionian revolt lasted for about half a decade.