It sure is important in being able to learn regarding some historical events which are significant. In most programs for education, it is expected that the curriculum includes history. As dead people are being talked about there, some people think everything has been pointless to discuss. However, the happenings of some circumstances may be ideas worth knowing about. For example, the life in present times is affected by situations and wars which happened before.
Persians and Greeks had battles for how many years and its occurrences are worth it to discover. Remember the wars which took event in ancient Greece Persia. A history class could have just tackled some significant topics here. In fact, being aware on what the ancestors did before as well as understanding it has been necessary for everyone.
Within olden times, the conflicts between Persian Empire and Greek states were definitely tremendous. Four hundred ninety until four hundred seventy nine BC was when it occurred. Understanding some occurrences can be vague for others. However, it was those historical writings of Herodotus in which he contributed people with the knowledge. It becomes helpful to have occurrences being written down anyway.
Darius I and his ruling started this somehow by which he had Western Asia and Egypt included to the Empire. The ruling of Darius is not agreed by everyone though that a revolt was conducted by the Greeks. Athens and Eretria were particularly helpful for this aspect. Greece was later added as a punishment by Darius when he knew that. With Macedon or Thrace being conquered by Persians successfully, what actually stopped them was the brutal storm.
Eretria was both conquered by Datis and Artaphernes. The next target was said to be Athens yet this was when they became unsuccessful by the way. The ones who fought them really hard were the ten thousand people of Athenian armies. Plataea also helped in the defeat with a thousand men. The ones being outnumbered were Athenians. However, their achievement took place because of Miltiades and his strategic plan.
Another expedition which was the third and said to be powerful was planned by Darius as he was not the kind of person who easily gives up. He did die at the end though as his plans took such a long time to continue. His son or successor, Xerxes I, was responsible to have his legacy continued. Moreover, Themistocles had strengthened the wall within Athens. Thus, the formation of the Themistoclean wall happened.
The establishment of new alterations in terms of politics happened on this time. Themistocles somehow made that possible in his ruling. With the huge army and navy of Xerxes, he already reached Greece here. The team of Spartan Leonidas was the one defending that Thermopylae pass. They never fled from the battle yet they still died while fighting those Persians. Athenians had their city being taken by Persians afterward.
Being victorious happened to the Greeks once again from the idea of Themistocles. The city state of Athens had become so strong after that victory. They effectively had their fighting skills enhanced continuously for the sake of justice.
Those things might be shocking but they managed those in a journey. In battling, things were way different before. Changing constantly is what is still true though.