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.
Why did the Gulf War happen? It happened when an lraq leader, Sadden Hussein, wanted to take over the Kuwaitâs oil fields. He did this because Iraq was near bankruptcy so they needed the oil to make more money. U.S president George Bush formed a coalition to stop Iraq.