To spread his anti-semitic views
Pericles<span> transformed his city's alliances into an empire and graced its Acropolis with the famous Parthenon.</span>
After Ionian Greeks in Asia Minor revolted, their relatives in eretria and others sent forces to help them. They captured the persian provincial capital of sardis, burnt it and destroyed the statues of the persian gods. Some greeks rebelled against him and helped there fellow greeks in the fight for asia.
They count them out of the box.