The Greco-Persian Warsby Mclalo The Greco-Persian Wars are a
sequence of wars fought between the great empire of Persia and
the coalition of Greek city-states. It lasted for about half a
decade from 499 BC to 488 BC. 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. The Ionian Revolt
initiated the First Major Persian War. During 539 BC Cyrus The
Great ruled Persia and most of West Asia. During his reign his
first captured Lydia, which lay along the coast of Anatolia. 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 D