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古希腊史，插图版(下) Ancient Greece, An Illustrated History THE PERSIAN WARS TIME LINE n the fifth century BCE the two greatest powers of the IMediterranean worldGreece and Persiawere involved in a 499 BCE titanic military struggleThe great battles of the Persian Wars Anti-Persian Thermopylae Marathon and Salamisare famous to this day rebellion breaks out in Anatolia By the end of the sixth century BCE the crossed the Bosporus and was actively 490 BCE Persian Empire was the greatest the seeking conquests on the west side of the Darius I sends world had ever known Its rise to power Black Sea all the way to the mouth of the army into Greece came with stunning rapidity Only 50 Danube but with little success However after Sparta and years earlier the Persians had been just Darius did succeed in conquering Thrace Athens refuse to one of several small peoples inhabiting and Macedon which meant that his recognize his the Iranian plain in the Middle East empire then bordered the northwest sovereignty Persians are They were also subjects of the Medes In extremity of mainland Greece defeated at Battle 549 BCE the Persians ambitious king Between the eighth and sixth cen- of Marathon Cyrus the Great ruled 559–529 BCE turies BCE Sparta and Athens had 480 BCE led a revolt against the Medes and defeat- become the predominant city-states of Second Persian ed them By this victory he became lord Greece With