Why didn't Persians take advantage of the Peloponnesian War?

Why didn't Persians take advantage of the Peloponnesian War?
Why didn't they side with Spartans to destabilise Athenian poleis in Asia?

they sided with both, when one side was close to victory they would fund the other

And what was the point of funding them?

to exhaust both sides' manpower to have an easier time in future conquests

They fucking did and by the time of the Corinthian War the Persians were given control of Ionia in the Peace of Antalcidas

A lot of Greeks didn't like Persians on account of them killing each other

When did those conquests happen?

The Persians wanted the Greeks weak and decentralized so they couldn't be a threat and could be overrun easily if a second attempt at conquest were made (it never was).

They also thought it was funny as shit that the Greeks, despite being great warriors and skilled administrators, were sperging out at each other like a bunch of autists rather than uniting and expanding.

You do realize they were the ones giving Sparta the money they needed for that fleet, right?

They didn't. Doesn't mean there wasn't an intention for them to happen at some stage

>Ancient Greeks
>great warriors
LMAO

Because Persia was content with just letting the Greeks tear each other apart. They really posed no threat to the integrity of the empire.

Didn't stop the Spartans from taking Persian gold. The Persians realized that it was more economical just to buy off Greek politicians instead of invading a backwards area.

Any Persian plans were thoroughly derailed with the rise of Macedonia

Greece wasn't "backwards." Not saying it was a superpower but calling it backwards is just retarded.

>despite being great warriors
When will this meme die? The only soldiers worth anything were Pezhetairoi and reformed infantry of Phillip and the Diadochi and not even for that long, Roman Legionnaires owned them soon enough.

This, anything you can think of Romans were better at it than the greeks when it comes to warfare.

Because people in 400BC were not very good at history from events that occurred after 400BC
Rome at the time was a city state irrelevant to the Eastern mediterranean

Literal mouth-breather nonsense.

Yes, the Hellenes were great warriors and repeatedly obliterated pathetic Asian armies throughout the 5th and 4th century.

Lmao at the very idea that the Mede could stand up to a hoplite charge. The absolute fucking state of Veeky Forums.

I think too many people think the Macedonian phalanx was the same as the Greek phalanx. Which isn't true at all. The Greek phalanx was composed of levies who received no formal military training while the Macedonian phalanx was made up of professional soldiers.

I think there's also the case of propaganda. In which we think the Greeks easily defeated the Persians despite that they lost pitched battles during the Ionian revolt and Herodotus mentions that the Persians struck fear into the Greeks. On top of that there was nothing special about the hoplite. Heavy infantry existed all over the Mediterranean. Herodotus mentions of soldiers in Xerxes' army armed "just like the Greeks" such as the Assyrians and the Egyptians, he also contradicts himself by saying the Persian immortals were armed with armor made up of iron scale yet saying later they weren't. I've also seen some suggest that the Greeks outnumbered the Persians.

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Ehhh, what the fuck? Isn't that exactly what happened?

You guys forget the most important aspect.
The Persian Empire was huge. They had to deal with too much other stuff. They were not interested in Greek poleis at this time.

why is this map a weird mixture of french and english

Is this bait? That's exactly what happened. Read your Thucydides.

No, that only happened after the conclusion of the war.

Fucking a. Thought this was a history board.

They originally commissioned a Frenchman to create the map but he was too lazy to finish it so then they hired an Englishman.

Xenophon's Hellenica, really

>Argos
>Neutral