Hi everyone and welcome to another episode of ancient warfare answers. I am again flying solo,

so I get to play while the cat's away, the cat being Yaspur, even though Yaspur is a dog person.

I'm a cat person, but that's okay. Anyway, welcome. I'm going to answer a couple of questions,

well, one question this time round. And remember, of course, that you can support

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of them, you can get a digital copy of the magazine, and the other you can get a physical copy of the magazine and of course support the podcast at the same time. Now, the question that I am going to answer today has been posed and I've compiled this big list of questions. So it's the one that says,

why didn't the Persians react faster and more decisively

against the troops sent by Philip II of Macedon

into Asia Minor in 336 BC under Parmenion to free the Ionian Greeks, and that's from Andreas.

Now, the main reason for that is that the satrapies of the Persian Empire, in their tens, 47, I have the number hitting, but that might not be correct.

They're pretty much independent governorship of areas

and the way that the Persian Empire is governed

that those are very autonomous

and they tend to have a lot of freedom

to govern their own satrappy

as they see fit

and only when there's a crisis does someone else come to their aid or

come and solve the problem. And so what you've got in the end of the Peloponnesian War from

413 is Tysifernis becomes the satrap of Ionia and Lydia, and he helps Lysander

the Spartan win the Peloponnesian War, basically by funding a Spartan fleet, which is able to

defeat the Athenian fleet at the end of the Peloponnesian War. So that's very independent.

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