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The Greco-Persian Wars or PersianWars were a series of conflicts between the Greek world and the Persian Empire that started about 500 BC and lasted until 448 BC.
The Persians never really renounced their ambitions, and continued to meddle in Greek affairs in a sort of "cold war"; seducing cities with diplomacy and/or buying them off with gold, and employing Greek mercenaries (most famously Xenophon), until Alexander put an end to the Persian empire.
For the Greeks, the PersianWars engendered a consciousness of Greek unity, but the reality was short-lived, and a mere twenty years later the Greek world was torn apart by the Peloponnesian War.
The Greco-Persian Wars or PersianWars were a series of conflicts between the Greek world and the Persian Empire that started about 500 BC and lasted until 448 BC.
The Persians never really renounced their ambitions, and continued to meddle in Greek affairs in a sort of "cold war"; seducing cities with diplomacy and/or buying them off with gold, and employing Greek mercenaries (most famously Xenophon), until Alexander put an end to the Persian empire.
For the Greeks, the PersianWars engendered a consciousness of Greek unity, but the reality was short-lived, and a mere twenty years later the Greek world was torn apart by the Peloponnesian War.
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