PERSIAN WAR
- new tech.
- only rich people can fight
- wepons and armor was expensive
- Iron replaced bronze and allowed poor people to fight cause its cheaper
- phalanx
- spear in one hand, shield in other
- Start of persian war
- between greece and persian empire
- ionian greeks revolted
- athens sold troops
- defeted by dariius the Great
- he was mad.
- vowed to destroy athens
- War Cont.
- 10000 athens v 25000 persians
- persian fled
- more persians were killed
- major athens victory
- 10000 athens v 25000 persians
- Why so major?
- athenians used new fighting technique
- persians were not well trained in the terrian
- persian didnt have good armor
- athenians were fighting on there homeland
- Battle of Marathon
- athenians won
- alot of em dies
- pheidippides was a runner he ren 26 miles from marathon to athens
- marathon
- persian tried to attack again but then they fled
- Ten years later..
- Xerxes, Darius the Greats son
- he wanted to destroy athens like his dad
- Greek issues
- some thought they should fight
- some thought they should allow them to purn it
- some fought for persian
- Battle of Thermopylae
- fought at narrow moutnain pass
- greeks and spartans stood in the way of xerxes
- xerxes underestimated to greeks
- 300
- a traitor went to xerxes and informed him of a secret path around them
- fearing defeat the spartans fought the persians s o that the greeks could flee to fight another day
- all 300 spartans were killed
- including king leonidas
- the sacrifice made a great impresion on the greeks
- they went and fought the persians again
- showed xerxes what he was really up agianst
- Battle of Salamis
- greeks abandonded athens
- fighting by the sea was there best chance
- they fought by a island
- xerxes watch as 1/3 of his ships were sunk
- xerxes was assasignated cause he failed.
- Lasting effects
- Delian Leage was created
- Athenians as the head of the league and moved the headquarters to athens
- gave them alot of power
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