Everyone Knows about the Greco-Persian Wars, But very often the “Why” they happened tends to be glossed over when people talk about them and talk more about the famous battles like Marathon and Thermopylae. But that’s why I’ve decided to make a video dedicated to the “Ionian Revolt” which was the catalyst to the wars. Da Sauce: Herodotus, The Histories: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0126&redirect=true Waters, Matt (2014).: Ancient Persia: A Concise History of the Achaemenid Empire, 550–330 BCE. Cambridge University Press. Images featured in the video: By Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. http://www.cngcoins.com, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=547604 By Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. http://www.cngcoins.com, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=74443198 By Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. http://www.cngcoins.com, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=74443157