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.
But Iran rejected a cease-fire, demanding the removal of Saddam Hussein and compensation for war damage. Upon Iraqâs refusal, Iran launched an invasion into Iraqi territory (Operation Ramadan, on July 13, 1982) in the first of many attempts over the coming years to conquer Basra, Iraqâs second city and only real port. But revolutionary Iran was very limited in its tactically offensive means.