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The Persians conquered the Ionians Greek colonies.

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The Athenians helped the Ionians escaped the Persians.

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In the first battle,  the Battle of Marathon, the successor of Darius Xerxes invaded Athens in 490 B.C hundreds of Persian ships and 150,000 soldiers went to attack.  Athens was prepared to fight back; they had made alliances with other Greek city-states also including Sparta.

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The Battle of Thermopylae, Athens needed more time to get ready so the King of Sparta king Leonidas occupied the important mountain pass of the Thermopylae. The king fought with a small army and fought off the Persians so the Greeks had more time to prepare.

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The small group known as the triremes fought the Persian army The Greeks lured the Persians into a trap in the strait at Salamis and destroyed nearly a third of the Persian fleet.

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the Battle of Platea, an enormous and unified Greek army conquered the Persians. Despite the fact that the war went on for a few more decades. Greece was safe and Athens and Spartans came to be victorious as the most powerful city-states in Greece.