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An ancient city of western Asia Minor northeast of modern-day Izmir, Turkey. As the capital of Lydia it was the political and cultural center of Asia Minor from 650 to c. 550 B.C. and remained an important city during Roman and Byzantine times. Sardis was destroyed by the Athenians in 1402.
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Why did the Persians hate the Athenians?
In the early stages of the Ionian Revolt of the Greek city-states in Asia Minor against Persian rule, Athens sent a contingent to help the Athenians, and when they captured the Persian provincial capital of Sardis, they burnt the city down and destroyed the statues of the Persian gods. When the Persians captured Athens 20 years ater, they destroyed the Athenian gods as a mark of retaliation.
Why did the Athenians fight in the battle of Marathon?
To repel a Persian attemp to re-install Athens' banished ex-tyrant Hippias to rule them again and keep them under control, after an Athenian force had been involved in burning down the Persian provincial capital Sardis in Asia Minor.
How did the Athenians continue to fight after Athens was burned?
They abandoned the city before the arrival of the Persian army, their families seeking shelter in the cities of the Peloponnese. Some males stayed in the city, trying to defend the Acropolis (failed), some located themselves on the island of Psyttalia, but most embarked on the 180 ships of their navy and fought at sea. Athens was not burned. The Persians looted it and destroyed the statues of their gods in retaliation for the Athenians burning the Persian gods earlier in Sardis. The Persian didn't burn the city as they used it as accommodating their army in 480 and 479 BCE.
Why did the Persians chose to destroy the acropolis instead of any other building?
The Persians burnt down Athens including the foundations of the new Acropolis being constructed as payback for Marathon after Persia tried to invade Greece to gain more territory and was defeated. The Athenians had previously helped the Ionian Greeks of the Greek city of Sardis, revolt against the tyrannical satrap of Persia and Persian subjugation in which the Persian temple of Cybele was burnt down. The Ionian revolt delayed Persia's attack on Greece and fuelled Persia's lust for more and more land. Xerxes then used the revolt as a pretext to invade mainland Greece. _____________ There was a group of hold-outs defending it and there was also payback - the Athenians had earlier been involved in the looting of the Persian provincial capital of Sardis in Asia Minor, where they destroyed the statues of the gods. But they wanted the city as quarters for their army.
What city did the royal road go through?
sardis
