There are plenty of examples of takeovers in theaancient world because no one could send the message,”we’ve been taken oher and you could be next”
Funny. I’ve just finished reading Herodotus’s Histories, the second half of which could be described as chronicling exactly that message and the response to it.
(There’s a bit more to it, of course. In summary, the Greek-speaking Ionic states of western Turkey rebelled against their Persian-appointed satraps, supported by Athens and its allies; after putting down the revolt, Persia’s emperor Darius elected to subjugate Athens and incidentally the rest of Aegean Greece in retaliation. Persia in a series of campaigns then conquered much of Greece before being stopped at Marathon; years later, Darius’s son Xerxes decided to go for Round 2 and met with much the same results.)
Funny. I’ve just finished reading Herodotus’s Histories, the second half of which could be described as chronicling exactly that message and the response to it.
(There’s a bit more to it, of course. In summary, the Greek-speaking Ionic states of western Turkey rebelled against their Persian-appointed satraps, supported by Athens and its allies; after putting down the revolt, Persia’s emperor Darius elected to subjugate Athens and incidentally the rest of Aegean Greece in retaliation. Persia in a series of campaigns then conquered much of Greece before being stopped at Marathon; years later, Darius’s son Xerxes decided to go for Round 2 and met with much the same results.)
And Genghis and Atilla ..