CIVILIZATION
GREEK
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Question
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The Greek victory prevented Athens from being captured.
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The battle destroyed the Persian fleet and broke Persian naval power in the region.
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The Greeks turned back an invading Persian army.
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The victory allowed the Greeks to recapture Ionia.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Persians made no further attempts to conquer the Greek mainland. These battles of Salamis and Plataea thus mark a turning point in the course of the Greco-Persian wars as a whole; from then onward, the Greek poleis would take the offensive.
Detailed explanation-2: -His undermanned defeat of the Persian King Darius III at the Battle of Gaugamela is seen as one of the decisive turning points of human history, unseating the Persians as the greatest power in the ancient world and spreading Hellenistic culture across a vast new empire.
Detailed explanation-3: -The defeat of the Persians at the Battle of Salamis was a turning point in history. The Persian Empire was prevented from spreading through Europe and, during the forty years of peace that followed, Greek civilization rose to its greatest height.