Part one of term paper
were a 20-year conflict that lasted from 490 B.C. to 479 B.C., in which the kings of the Persian Empire made an effort to acquire Greece. The independent city-states banned together and successfully resisted these attacks. The Greek colonies in Asia Minor were conquered, in 550 B.C., by Croesus, King of Lydia, and brought into the Lydian ...

Part two of term paper
... were appointed to rule each as tyrants; citizens were required to serve in the Persian army and to pay fairly steep taxes. In 500 B.C., Aristagoras, the Persian tyrant of Miletus, proposed to the Persians that they should conquer the Aegean Islands starting with Naxos. The Persians launched the expedition, unaware of the strong defense of Naxos, which was due to the active organization of its democratic system. The Persians failed and Aristagoras, fearing for his life, began a democrat ...