Persia was looking to establish peace and stable government within its empire. The Greek cities within it were being encouraged in revolt by their mother-cities in mainland Greece. Persia decided that the only way to stop this was to bring those cities within the empire and establish an ethnic fromtier. The battles were designed to give effect to this policy.

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