New technology
-During the Dorian period 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 battle
-spear in one hand shield in the other
Start of the Persian Empire
- war between greece and persian empire
-it first began in ionia on the coast of anatolia
-greeks were settled there but the persians conquered it around 546 bc
-the ionian greeks revolted
-athens sent soldiers to help in the revolt
-darius the great defeaed the revolted and vowed to destroy athens
war continues
-in 490 bc the persian fleets of 25,000 men landed in an area called marathon
-10,000 athenians met them there
-persians fled the battle field
-6,000 persians died
-200 athenians died
why was it such a great victory
-The athenians ere using this new fighting formation called phalanx
-the persians were not well trained in this type of land fighting
-the persians also wore very light armor compared to that of the athenians
-athenians were fighting on there home land
Marathon
-even though the athenians
had won they left their city without much of an army
-according to the tradition army leaders would send a runner ti alert athens of battle
-pheidippides was a runner he ran 26 miles from marathon to athens
-persians tried to quickly attack athens ofter their defeat
ten years later
-Xerxes, darius the Great's son, had become the successor of the persian army
=he brought and enormous army with him to complete the job his father had once vowed
greek issues
-the greeks were divided on how to handle the persian situation
- some city states thought that they should fight them and defend their city of athens
-some thought it wasnt worth it and they should just allow them to leave
- some fought with the persians
Famous battle of thermoplae
-a narrow mountain pass was ths seting of this battle
-7,000 greeks and 300 spartans stood in the way of xerxes and his huge army on this push to get to athens
-xerxes underestimated the greeks and spartans however they stood up for three days
300
-a traitor went to xerxes and informed him of a secret path around the pass
-fearing defeat the spartans fought the persians so that the greeks could flee to fight another day
-all 300 were killed including leonidas
Lasting effects of the spartan sacifice
-made a great impression on the greeks
-allowed the remainign greeks to retreat and fight against the persians again
-showed xexres what he was up against
battle of salamis
-greeks abandoned athens because they thought that fighting at sea was their best chance
-they were right xerxes watched at 1/3 of his fleet was sunk truly diminishing his army
lasting effects of the persian war
- the delian league was create a alliance of grekk city states to continue to push the persians out of greece
-athenians was the head of the league and moced the headquarters to athens
-this gave the athenians a lot of power and helped push them into their golden age
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