Download world history video: last stand of the 300 - Mr. Thompson

THE LAST STAND OF THE 300
ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS AS YOU WATCH.
1. What was unique about the Persian army?
2. What are the modern estimates of the number of soldiers in the Persian army?
3. What was the intention of King Xerxes of Persia?
4. What did this threaten in its infancy?
5. Describe the battlefield at Thermopylae:
6. The Persians outnumbered the Greeks by how many?
7. Explain how the battlefield at Thermopylae gave the Greeks an advantage:
8. What role did King Leonidas of Sparta play during this battle?
9. What role did the Athenians play in the Greek defense?
11. Describe the training young Spartan boys were given:
12. What did the Spartans do to “toughen” the boys up?
13. What was a final test for young Spartans to prove they were a man?
15. What had happened back in 490 BC?
16. What famous battle took place between the Athenians and the Persians back then?
17. Who won this battle?
18. Besides 300,000 men, what else did King Xerxes send to Greece 10 years later?
19. Besides the 300 Spartans, how many other Greeks tried to stop the Persians?
20. What was the job of the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae?
21. What did the Persian navy outnumber the Greek navy by?
22. What was the goal during a naval battle back then?
23. What was the Persian elite land forces called?
24. How did they do against the Spartans?
25. What did the Persians do on day three of the battle?
26. What does King Leonidas order most of the Greek soldiers to do?
27. What does he decide to do?
28. Describe how King Leonidas was killed?
29. What is the end result of this “Last Stand”?
30. How many Persians had been killed in the three day battle?
31. What did Xerxes do to Athens two months later?
32. Why wasn’t there a great loss of life?
33. What would the Greeks eventually do years later to the Persian threat?
34. In the end, what were the main accomplishments of the 300 Spartans?
35. What idea might have been destroyed if the Persians had conquered the Greeks?