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How important were the Persian wars for the course of Greek history
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How important were the Persian wars for the course of Greek history? The Persian wars were important for shaping Greek ideology as to what it meant to be Greek, and in encouraging the growth of Empire, as well as enabling the growth of Athens economically, culturally, and politically, which eventually led to the Peloponnesian war and the downfall of Athens. It is impossible to say that all of these changes were caused solely by the influence of the Persian wars, but the wars certainly either accelerated them or acted as a turning point in the way they were developing. Before the Persian Wars, the idea of pan-Hellenic unity was alien to most. Hesiod established the idea that all of the autonomous city-states had the same origins; Hellen, grandson of Prometheus. Herodotus, writing after the time of the Persian Wars, believed that 'being of the same stock and the same speech, our...
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