The defeat of the Persians at Marathon caused them to end their first invasion of Greece and marked the first time a force has repelled the Persian Army.
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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!
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They were major steps in persuading the Persian Empire to stop trying to impose peace in the Eastern Mediterranean.
The battle was 490 BCE, so count backwards.
The Battle of Marathon proved that Greek armor , tactics and strategy could defeat a numerically superior opponent .
The battle has no importance today. It is an interesting historical story.
500 years after the battle of marathon
Look up : Battle of Marathon by Brian Palmer Also type in picture battle of marathon
Persia had a king, not an emperor. The Persian king Darius I was at home in Persia when the battle of Marathon took place, so he was not killed at Marathon. Darius the Great died of natural causes 14 years after Marathon.
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The Ancient Greek Battle of Marathon(490B.C.) took place in the bay of marathon
The Battle of Marathon took place in 490 BC. The battle took place in Marathon, Greece. It was a battle between the citizens of Athens, and the Persians.
26 miles was the distance the Greek runner covered, while running, to declare "Nike" after the last major sea battle during the Peloponnesian Wars. The Greeks begun honoring this distance as a 'marathon' distance.