Greeks and Persains

Though out ancient history the Greeks ( google book) and the Persians( google book) fought. They had two very different cultures, however they both did wan to same thing. Both Civilisations wanted to conquer the world. The Persian Empire was very lager, however they wanted to make to even bigger. The Greeks wanted to make very one like them, they wanted speared their culture though out the world. Link

Greece was a upcoming place, it was besoming great in a very short amount of time. Greece was being coming a threat the the Persians. The Persians wanting to rule could not have Greece or Athens become more powerful them then. Leading up to many wars against the Greeks, In the Persian decide that they were going to conquer Greece. link

The Battle at Marathon was when the Persians come to take over Greece. Marathon was twenty miles from Athens, Greece. At This Battle The Greeks won, giving a new hope that they would defeat the Persians. A good thing about them fighting with the person was it was the one and only time that it brought Greece together as one. Athens and Sparta were fighting all the time, this one time however, they work together as one. link

"This battle meant a boost for the Athenian self-confidence, and the city became even stronger after the discovery of silver ore near Laurion. The new affluence was used to build a large navy."
The way that the Greeks would defect the Persians was by water. The Greeks had the best navy a around. it was smaller then the Persians. The way the Greeks won, was they would out think the Persian something that people from Athens was very good at. link

"For the Persians this defeat was a relatively minor affair. Their empire would last for 150 years more, and would often play a leading, if largely indirect, role in Greek affairs. For the Greeks the results were far more marked. They took great pride in their success against overwhelming odds, and became still more proud of their culture and conscious of the difference which they believed distinguished them from their "barbarian" neighbors. " There were two very different place that wanted the same thing. The Greeks were very proud of what they had done. source