The Athenian and Plataean armies defeat of the Persian expeditionary force convinced other Greek city-states that they could hold off Persian attempts to dominate them.
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the battle was so important because it was so that the australians could take back a chunk of the Germans army, the megority were on mont st quentin as a look out and the Australian army destroyed them
According to legend, the marathon springs from an account of a Greek soldier who ran from the town of Marathon to Athens, which is about 25 miles and some change, to inform the Senate that the Battle of Marathon had been won. The legend states that the soldier ran the entire difficult, mountainous route nonstop, declared "We are victorious", collapsed and died.
It signed the unstoppable decline of wooden battleships' age.
Because they wanted to!