CLAS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ionian Revolt, Carnea, Hoplite

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS 1000
• Professor: John Walsh

Document Summary

Persia and the greeks, 550-490 bc the great war, 480-479 bc. East of greek a gigantic empire was starting to emerge which was the persian. Cyrus the great was the one who put this massive empire together while the greeks were putting the final touches on their empire. Takes over lydia 547 bactria (iraq) time of war when needed, they have to pay taxes to the king etc. To be apart of the (cid:498)treaty(cid:499) cities have be able to respond to the king at any. The reason why the persian empire couldn"t gain control of ionia was. Ionia will not participate in the empire because they don"t want to be controlled by a king because of achilles. Regions are ran by satraps and the small towns are ran by tyrants. Greeks look for other greek help to fight against the persians (seek help from the mainland. Athenians then marched to sardis to make a point seized the temple of.