No, it was a punitive expedition launched by Darius I against notthe Greeks generally but Eretria and Athens. Eretria was capturedand enslaved but Athens defeated the attack on it at Marathon andin front of the city in 490 BCE.

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Cyrus the Great was killed in a battle with the Massagetae theprevious century and was subsequently succeeded by his son CambysesII.

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