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The First Persian War is brief. …
Years: 490BCE - 490BCE
June
The First Persian War is brief.
Persia in the summer of 490, intending to punish Athens for its participation in a raid in Asia Minor, sends a force (small by Persian standards, about twenty thousand infantry and eight hundred cavalry, commanded by Datis, a Mede) that sails across the Aegean, stopping to capture the Ionian colony of Náxos, the largest of the Cyclades.
Hippias, the deposed Athenian tyrant who had taken refuge with the Persian governor at Sardis and is now a bitter old man, crosses the Aegean with the Persian army.
The seaborne invaders capture Náxos, treating the island with severity, …
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- Athens, City-State of
- Ionians
- Greece, classical
- Persian people
- Naxos (Ionian Greek) city-state of
- Eretria, City-State of
- Achaemenid, or First Persian, Empire
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- Younger Subboreal Period
- Iron Age Europe
- Iron Age Cold Epoch
- Classical antiquity
- Greco-Persian Wars, Early
- Persian Invasion of Greece, First
- Marathon, Battle of
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Years: 490BCE - 490BCE
June
Locations
Groups
- Athens, City-State of
- Ionians
- Greece, classical
- Persian people
- Naxos (Ionian Greek) city-state of
- Eretria, City-State of
- Achaemenid, or First Persian, Empire
Topics
- Younger Subboreal Period
- Iron Age Europe
- Iron Age Cold Epoch
- Classical antiquity
- Greco-Persian Wars, Early
- Persian Invasion of Greece, First
- Marathon, Battle of
Commodoties
Subjects
Regions
Subregions