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 1990 an army from Iraq took over the country of Kuwait. In January 1991 the United Nations (UN) sent in armies from many countries to push out the Iraqis. The war they fought is called the Persian Gulf War. (Kuwait and Iraq lie on the Persian Gulf, a body of water in the Middle East.)