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Why did Darius come to fight the Greeks in 492 BCE? *

1.he wanted revenge on those who had helped the lonians during their rebellion

2.he wanted new land to take over for his empire

3.he hated the Greeks because they killed his father in a previous war​

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The support lent by Athens provoked Darius to invade Greece (492). His fleet was destroyed in a storm. In 490 he assembled a huge army on a plain near Athens; his devastating defeat at the Battle of Marathon sent him back to Persia.

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