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BATTLE!

Day Two:

Greeks still help strong, but a traitor of the Greeks informed the Persians of a alternate route which but the Persians behind the main bulk of Greeks but they withdrew before they were completely cut off.

Day One:

Persia sent Median and Kissian troops to clear the pass way of Thermopylae, but the Greeks didn't move with the phalanx formation and it lessened the Persian archers.

Day Three:

Persian attacked the Greek army from both rear and front. Leonidas (Spartans king) moved troops to a wider part of Thermopylae to use more of the soldiers, but in battle he died. The Greek army was cornered and the Persians killed every single one of them and until none was left with the archers.

Scene from 300 that display the Battle of Thermopylae

War Stance

Greece v. Persia

In the End...

The Persians lost the war and would not gain victory. The Greeks won and Xerxes would never have Greece.

Persia

Greek

The strategy from the Greeks in the Battle of Thermopylae would help them win many wars in the future. Also, it helped in a recent war against New Zealand and Germany in 1941.

  • Used archers followed by a cavalry charge

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  • Used a formation called phalanx

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BATTLE OF THERMOPYLAE!!

  • Persia sent an army to pass through Thermopylae, and Greek sent 10,000 hoplites, but they came back when seeing the massive Persian army
  • The Greek states sent "300 Spartans and their helots [peasants] with 2,120 Arcadians, 1,000 Lokrians, 1,000 Phokians, 700 Thespians, 400 Corinthians, 400 Thebans, 200 men from Phleious, and 80 Mycenaeans" and 300 trireme [ships] to defend the pass of Thermopylae.

Background Info:

(Persian)

  • Thermopylae is a terrain that has mountains surrounding it and a narrow road to pass, the Greeks set up their to defeat the Persians
  • Cyrus the Great, conquered many empires from 552 b.c. to 529 b.c.
  • Xerxes sent another envoy to offer the surrender of the Greeks, but the Greeks response was "molōn labe" which means come and get them.
  • Under the ruler ship of Cyrus and his son Darius, Persia became the largest empire in the world

BATTLE THEN BEGAN!!

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  • During the Battle of Thermopylae, Darius the Great was king

Leading to Battle

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Continued...

Leading to Battle:

Background Info:

  • Persia began to expand in Europe in 486 b.c., but, the Athens and the rest of the Greeks were a blockade.
  • The Battle of Marathon, leads to the Battle of Thermopylae

(Greeks)

  • 491 b.c Darius (the King) asked Greece for Persian submission.
  • Greece was organized as single-states
  • Darius (King of Persia), died and Xerxes became king in 486 b.c., Xerxes made massive preparations for battle with the Greeks.
  • Athens and Sparta allied to protect Greece against the Persian Empire
  • Greek pottery and sculptures were born in this era, which was the Classical Era from 500-400 b.c
  • "Greece was about to face its greatest ever threat, and even the oracle at Delphi ominously advised the Athenians to ‘fly to the world’s end’"
  • In 490 b.c., Persia and the Greek forces led by the Athens, met at battle of Marathon, and the Greek forces defeated the Persian invaders.
  • "Greece reached the heights in almost every area of human learning during this time and the great thinkers and artists of antiquity flourished"

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Battle of Thermopylae

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