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New technology
During the Dorian age only the rich could really afford to buy the bronze weaponry and armor
Iron later replaced bronze and allowed the common man to be able to arm himself and fight battles
Start of the Persian war
war between Greece and Persian empire
it first began in Ionia on the coast of Anatolia
Greeks were settled there but Persians conquered it around 546 BC
the Ionian Greeks revolted
Athens sent soldiers to help in the revolt
Darius the great defeated the revolt
Continues
in 490 BC the Persian fleet of 25,000 men landed in a area called marathon
ten thousand Athenians meet them there
The Athenians were using this new fighting formation called the phalanx
the Persians were not well trained in this of land fighting
the Persians also wore very light armor compared to that of the Athenians
Athenians would fighting on their homeland
Marathon
even though athenians had won they left their city without much of an army
according to tradition army leaders would send a runner to alert Athens of the battle.
Pheidippides was that runner
he ran 26 miles from Marathon to Athens
Persians tried quickly to defeat Athens but they got defeated and Athens came back once again.
Ten years later
Xerxes, Darius the greats son had become the successor of the Persian army
He brought an enormous army with him to complete the job that his father once vowed
Greek issues
-the Greeks were very divided on how to handle the Persian situation
- some city states thought that they should fight
- some city states thought it wasn't necessary to fight
- some even fought with the Persians.
Famous battle of Thermopylae
a narrow mountain pass was the setting this battle
seven thousand greeks and three hundred spartans stood in the way of xerxes and his huge army on this push to get athens
Xerxes underestimated the greeks
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a traitor went to Xerxes and informed him of a secret path around the pass.
a fearing defear the spartans fought the persian so that the greeks could flee to fight
made a great impression on the Greeks
allowed the remaining Greeks to retreat and fight the Persians again
showed Xerxes what he was up against
Major battle
Greeks abandoned Athens because they thought that fighting at sea was their best chance.
they were right, Xerxes watched as a one third of this fleet was sunk. Truly diminishing his army
The Delian league was created
Athenians was the head of the leagues and moved the headquarters to Athens.
this gave the Athenians a lot of power and helped push them into their golden age.
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