Please read: Jack Martin Balcer, ?The Greeks and the Persians: The Processes of Acculturation,? Historia: Zeitschrift f?r Alte Geschichte, Bd. 32, H. 3 (3rd Qtr., 1983), pp. 257-267. Available on JSTOR at: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4435852 and in the Readings Folder.

And discuss: Using Balcer?s definition of ?acculturation,? describe one way the Persians influenced the Greeks and one way the Greeks influenced the Persians during the Persian conquest of the Eastern Greek states.