History of the Elites
They changed the history of the world and wrote a brand new history. They shook the entire world with their tactics, victories, battles, and history. They were both brave and fierce at any battle they fought. They never surrender nor retreat but fight until the last of them is dead. They never used walls as protection but they used themselves as walls to protect their city. They were known as the warriors of Sparta. These Greeks along with other Greeks changed the history of the world when they went to war against the massive armies of their well-known enemy known as the Persians. These wars were soon to be called the Persian Wars. But before these wars would occur, there were reasons that triggered these bloody wars. The historical event known as the Ionian Rebellion is what started the endless Persian Wars. The battle of Marathon was known for the tactics the Greeks used to win this battle. The Battles of Thermopylae, Salamis, and Plataea were known for the epical and heroic events that occurred during these battles.
The Ionian Rebellion was the first event that has caused the beginning of the Persian Wars. What caused the rebellion to occur was because Aristagoras, the leader of Miletus in Ionia, and other Greeks didn’t want to pay taxes for the Persian king nor fight for the Persian army in order for them to settle on Persian soil. During the rebellion, Aristagoras goes to Sparta and Athens to ask for help fighting those Persians. But Sparta refuses because the Persian armies were massive and powerful. Athens and other Greek city-states march to Sardis and burn it to the ground. Because Persia at that time was the most enormous empire geographically and militaristically it had four capital cities and Sardis was one of these capital cities. As a result, the Persian king known as Darius the Great was very upset for what these Greeks have done. As a response, Darius the Great sends out an army and slaughters every person who rebelled in...