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The Persians looked down on the greeks because they see them as a lesser society. The Persians had a complex society, under Mesopotamian influence, that they believed to be far superior. The Persians believed in opulence. Darius had a dream of Persia being a vast and resource rich society that flourished. But the idea of Greece and its resource-poor environment was the opposite of what that strived to achieve, and therefore below them.