new technology
- During dorian age only rich could afford bronze weaponry
- iron replaced bronze
- Battle Formation Phalanx
- Work together
- spears
- more defensive
Persian War
- Beween Greece and Persia
- ionia on coast of anatolia
- Greeks settled there
- persians conquered
- Darius The Great Vowed To Destroy Athens
due to athenians helping ionian greeks - Persian Fleet Landed in marathon
- Persians Fled
- 10000 Athenians
- 25000 Persians
- 6000 persians died
- less than 200 athenians died
- Athenians Won Because
- Armor
- Land Fighting
- Phalanx
- hometown advantage
- Even though they won Marathon they left athens left city without much of an army
- Pheidippides was the runner
- Persians Were Going to atack Athens but fled becuse athenians had returned
- Xerxes Darius' son took over
- enormous army to finish the job
- Greeks Were Divided
- Stand Up And Fight
- Not Worth It
- Join Persians
- thermopylae
- Narrow Pass
- 7000 greeks 300 spartans
- Xerxes Underestimated them
- Traitor
- Spartans told greeks to live to fight another day
- all 300 spartans died
- Made impression on the greeks
- allowed the greeks to fight again
- showed Xerxes what he was up against
- Greeks abandoned athens to fight at sea
- 1/3 of the Persian Fleet Was Sunk
- Delian League was Created
- Athenians Were in Charge
- Golden age
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