Battle of Marathon (490 BC)
-Athens and its allies vs. Persians
-was 22 miles from Athens
-Greeks charged the Persian front lines
-Greeks broke the Persian lines (Persians were forced to retreat to there boats)
-It was a complete win for the Greeks (ended the Persian threat)
Second invasion of Greece (480 BC)
-After splitting from Darius Xerxes promised to revenge his fathers death
-Xerxes re-attacked on Greece
-He had 700 ships and 150,000 soldiers for the invasion
-The Greeks fought a battle at Thermopylae Pass
-For 2 days 9000 Greeks fought for the Spartans
-The Persians surprised the Greeks (most retreated but 300 Spartans)
-Athenians later left there city
-The Greeks were contained in the Gulf of Saronic
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