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.
Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait with 120,000 of these and 2,000 tanks. After the Gulf War started, he concluded Iraqâs peace with Iran and raised his occupying force levels to 300,000. Iraq conscripted three fourths of men between ages 15 and 49.