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One of the most important factors was that the Greeks used clever military strategies such as the Athenian and Spartan navy and the use of better weapons and their clever knowledge of the inland waterways surrounding mainland Greece

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After the defeat of the  Persians  at Salamis , Xerxes fled with some of his soldiers and went back to Persia.He left the rest of the Persian army in Greece , with orders to attack again in the spring.

Led by the Spartans, a force of 80,000 Greek troops destroyed the Persian army. The alliance between the Athenians and Spartans was a key factor in winning the Battle of Plataea . Most importantly, the Greek victory ended the Persian wars and any future threat from the Persian Empire

The Greeks paid a high price  for their defeat of the Persians . Thousands of Greeks were dead, and the city of Athens had been destroyed. But the Athenians would soon rebuild  their city and raise it to an even greater glory.

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As news of the Greek  defeat at Thermopylae reached Athens, its citizens panicked . They boarded ships  and sailed to nearby islands. Only a small army of Athenians  was left to defend the city. Within the next to weeks the Persians had burned Athens to the ground.

An Athenian navy leader named Themistocles  thought he new a way to defeat the Persians. His strategy was to fight their navy in the narrow channels between the Greek islands and the Greek mainland.To get the plan to work Themistocles had to set a trap, he sent a loyal servant  to Xerxes camp,with a message saying that Themistocles wanted to change sides and join the Persians.

The plan had worked and the Greeks defeated the mighty Persian Empire.

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After King died Darius his son Xerxes became the next king. Xerxes wanted to follow in his father footsteps, he assigned another attack on the Greeks. The Greeks strategy had two parts . One part on the strategy was that the Athenian navy would try and stop the Persian navy and at the same time the Spartan king named Leonidas would also try and stop the Persian Army.

When the Persians got to the pass, the Greeks drove them back. Then came along a Greek traitor who showed the Persians a secret path in the mountains.The path allowed the Persians to surround the Greeks and attack them and the front and in the back. The Persians won the battle and advanced into Athens.

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After the Ionian revolt, King Darius wanted to conquer all the city states in mainland Greece. He sent messengers to ask for presents of Greek earth and water.The gifts would be a sign that the Greeks had agreed to accept Persian rule.

After the Greeks said  no to King Darius he sent about 15,000 foot soldiers  and cavalry  across the Aegean Sea by boat to  Greece.
A brilliant general named Miltiades convinced the Athenians that is was dangerous to fight the Persians at Marathon

The battle waged in the Marathon plain of northeastern Attica in 490 B.C. marked the first blows of the Greco-Persian War.

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The Persians started out as a small group of nomads, in what is now Iran. They built a large empire by conquering their neighbors.

By unleashing a storm of arrows that surprised their enemies, Persian archers won many battles, often before their opponents could get close enough to use their lances, or spears.

King Darius one of the greatest of all Persian kings, divided the empire into 20 provinces.He established a system of tax collection and appointed officials to rule local areas.