Answer:
The invasion, consisting of two distinct campaigns, was ordered by the Persian king Darius the Great primarily in order to punish the city-states of Athens and Eretria. These cities had supported the cities of Ionia during their revolt against Persian rule, thus incurring the wrath of Darius.
Result: Persian victory in Thrace and Macedon; ...
Territorial changes: Persia conquers Macedon ...
Date: 492 – 490 BC
Location: Thrace, Macedon, Cyclades, Euboea, ...
Explanation:
<u>Let's match each term with its corresponding descriptive elements </u>
<u>Conquest</u>
- fast
- less assimilation of local culture
- higher risk of resistance from potential converts
When Islam was spread by conquering other territories, the process was fast and encountered opposition by the population of those territories. In those conquests, muslims did not have any interest on local culture, they just exercised their dominance and imposed their culture over the territories acquired.
<u>Trade</u>
- slow
- more assimilation of local culture
- lower risk of resistance from potential converts
When a culture is spread through the establishment of trade relationships with another, these bonds are generally sustained by long lasting agreements which require getting to know the other party and assimilating its practices. Such manner of spreading a religion usually encounters no resistance as trade agreements take place when both parties are obtaining a profit from it, and none of them would be reluctant.
In the 13th century, people who lived in Venice, Italy, believed that the Sun revolved around the Earth and that creation occurred exactly 4,484 years before Rome was founded. As Christians, they considered Jerusalem, the place of Jesus’s crucifixion, to be the so-called navel of the world, and their maps portrayed this.
Marco Polo was born in Venice, or possibly Croatia, in 1254. Located on the eastern coast of Italy, Venice served as a gateway to the riches of Asia during this era of increasing trade. Goods flowed like water through the city. Ships from around the eastern Mediterranean docked at its port. Merchants and traders set sail from Venice for Constantinople (now Istanbul) and the Black Sea to fetch goods from Russia and from merchants who traveled the Silk Roads, a system of trading routes to and from China that crossed the mountains and deserts of Central Asia.
At the time of Marco’s birth, his father, Niccolo, and two uncles, all merchants, were away trading. Supposedly they were visiting cities on the Black Sea, but their adventures had actually taken them all the way to the Mongol capital of China, Khanbaliq (city of the Khan). There they had an audience with the most powerful ruler of the day, Kublai Khan, grandson of the founding emperor, Genghis Khan. When the three Polo men returned to Venice after an absence of 16 years, Niccolo found that his wife had died and that he had a 15-year-old son, Marco, whom he did not know existed.
Travels
Two years later, in 1271, Niccolo Polo and his brother, Maffeo, set off again, taking the 17-year-old Marco with them. This time they aimed directly for the court of Kublai Khan, to bring him documents from the pope and holy oil from Jerusalem that he had requested. Even with a gold passport from Kublai Khan, which enabled the travelers to use lodgings and horses posted by the Mongols along the Silk Road routes, they took three and a half years to arrive. Upon reaching the summer palace of Kublai Khan in 1275, Niccolo presented his son and offered him in service to the emperor.