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Persia Vs. The Greeks
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Persia Vs. The Greeks
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499 B. C.
Vol XCIII, No. 311
The Battle of Marathon
Pheidippides
- Runner that was sent home with the news of victory.
- Ran 25 miles from Marathon to Athens where he informed citizens of "VICTORY" then fell dead from exhaustion.
The Battle of Marathon
The Persian empire
(Cyrus the Great)
-United by Cyrus the Great
-Conquered Mesopotamia and Babylon
-Merciful rule helped hold the empire together.
- Persians - 20,000 soldiers
- Athens - 10,000 soldiers
- Persians waited on Athens to attack at Marathon for 4 days.
- Athens did not attack
- Persians decided to load soldiers on boats and attack Athens directly.
- Athenians attacked after best Persian soldiers had left for Athens.
- Athenians won the battle over the limited and unready Persian army.
The Persian Empire
Battle of Thermopylae
- Persians
- Persians lead by Xerxes, son of Darius.
- Xerxes vowed revenge against the Greeks because of his fathers defeat.
- Invaded Greece with 180,000 soldiers and thousands of war ships.
- Persians defeated the Spartans after a traitor told the Persians about a goat trail to get around the pass.
Greeks
- Joined forces
- Athens and Sparta
- Led by king Leonidas
- 7,000 Greek soldiers & 300 Spartans.
- Decided to fight in the narrow pass of Thermopylae.
- Held off the Persians for two days.
- Spartans sent all other Greek soldiers back and fought the Persians until the end.
The Fall of the Persian empire
Plataea
Salamis
- Persian empire fell from within
- Leaders raised taxes and spent money on luxuries for government officials
- Royal families fought and killed each other for power.
- Conquered by Alexander the Great.
- Greek city-states joined together and assembled the largest Greek army
- Better training and weapons allowed the Greeks to push the Persians back to Asia Minor
- Turning point in the battles between the Greeks in the Persians
- Naval battle at Salamis
- Greeks were confident because they had smaller faster ships.
- Greek ships were too fast for the Persians.
- Greeks destroyed almost the entire Persian navy
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