Download Persian War I Persian War I Peloponnesian War 500 BC Greek

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500 BC Greek colonists living in Asia Minor
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He takes 5, 000 troops by boat to go crush
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On the way there is a storm that destroys
half his fleet
The other half of the fleet sails on to fight.
They off load at Marathon.
It is a swampy and foggy place where the
Athenians can slip up and attack the
Persians.
They run them all the way back to the boats.
Nearly 2,000 are killed.
Darius is defeated and goes home mad
He vows REVENGE
10 years will pass b4 trying again
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Xerxes, Darius ‘s son is coming to crush the
Athenians
Taking 5,000 men by boat and 10,000 by land
Athens has only a small navy, they beg
Sparta for help
Sparta wants the colonies in Italy to help
W/o Athens knowledge the Spartans send
300 to the pass at Thermopylae to delay
Xerxes
Athens under Themistocles, flees the city
fearing death, burning or slavery.
Xerxes arrives at Athens. No one there he
burns the city
Athenians soldier go to Plataea. Xerxes
follows them
Spartans sink Xerxes fleet and kills 5,000 at
Salamis. They run to Plataea.
Catch Xerxes between them and defeat
Persia.
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Athens vs. Sparta
Sparta is jealous of Athenian successes w/
Delian League
They didn’t give Sparta the colonies in Italy for
helping w/ Persian War II
They fight off and on for 27 yrs.
Neither side can get an advantage
Spartans pull a dirty trick. They get Athens old
enemy, Persian to block their Port city of Piraeus
and starve the Athenians out.
Athens surrenders
Both Sparta and Athens are now too weak to
fight anyone else off.
Phillip II of Macedon will conquer all Greek citystates