Era of Ancient Greece. 1  1200 BC Trojan War (believed by many historians to be a mythical event) 2  499 - 479 BC Persian Wars (also called Greco-Persian Wars) 3  431 - 404 BC Peloponnesian War.  334 - 323 BC Wars of Alexander the 1  Great. 300s BC Samnite Wars between Rome and Samnium.
Causes of the conflict. Two Iraqi tanks lie abandoned near Kuwait City on February 26, 1991. Kuwait was a close ally of Iraq during the Iraq-Iran war and functioned as the countryâs major port once Basra was shut down by the fighting.
In addition to Husseinâs incendiary speech, Iraq had begun amassing troops on Kuwaitâs border. Alarmed by these actions, President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt initiated negotiations between Iraq and Kuwait in an effort to avoid intervention by the United States or other powers from outside the Gulf region.hough the Persian Gulf War was initially considered an unqualified success for the international coalition, simmering conflict in the troubled region led to a second Gulf Warâknown as the Iraq Warâthat began in 2003.