The Ionian Revolt

Question 0

Began where

Answer 0

Island of Naxos

Against their oligarchic rulers

Question 1

Happen in

Answer 1

499BC

Question 2

Aristagoras

Answer 2

The Oligarchs came to him for help
He saw it as an opportunity to gain power
Asked Darius for 200 ships

Question 3

How Aristagoras’s reputation was ruined

Answer 3

He quarrelled with Megabates (leader of the 200 ships)
Megabates warned the Naxians
His reputation with the Persians was ruined

Question 4

How Aristagoras’s helped

Answer 4

Decided to incite a rebellion amongst the Asiatic Greeks
To set up democracy
Failed to get support from Sparta
Got 20 ships from Athens

Question 5

Aristagoras’s attack

Answer 5

He led his forces as well as some Athenians and Eretrians
Marched to Sardis and occupied the city
A fire broke out, much of the city was burned
The Athenians returned home but had been brought to Darius’s attention

Question 6

The persian siege on Miletus

Answer 6

494BC
The Greeks fled
This stopped the rebellion
Aristagoras’s fled to Thrace