Accomplishments/Mistakes

What did they achieve? How did they fail?

In the battle of marathon the Greeks won even though they didn't have as much men as Persia . In the battle Persia lost about 6,400 of their men while Greece lost less than 200 men. This was one of the earliest battles recorded. This happened in 490 b.c. This was one of Greece's achievements. One of the  the fails that the Greeks had happened with the Peloponnesian War. In the end of this war the Greece was almost ruined while Sparta had power over the Greek states.