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WORLD HONORS VIDEO: LAST STAND OF THE 300
ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS AS YOU WATCH, KEEP THIS IN YOUR NOTEBOOK!
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?
10. What had happened back in 490 BC?
11. What famous battle took place between the Athenians and the Persians back then?
12. Who won this battle?
13. Besides 300,000 men, what else did King Xerxes send to Greece 10 years later?
14. Besides the 300 Spartans, how many other Greeks tried to stop the Persians?
15. What was the job of the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae?
16. What did the Persian navy outnumber the Greek navy by?
17. What was the goal during a naval battle back then?
18. What was the Persian elite land forces called?
19. How did they do against the Spartans?
20. What did the Persians do on day three of the battle?
21. What does King Leonidas order most of the Greek soldiers to do?
22. What does he decide to do?
23. Describe how King Leonidas was killed?
24. What is the end result of this “Last Stand”?
25. How many Persians had been killed in the three day battle?
26. What did Xerxes do to Athens two months later?
27. Why wasn’t there a great loss of life?
28. What would the Greeks eventually do years later to the Persian threat?
29. In the end, what were the main accomplishments of the 300 Spartans?
30. What idea might have been destroyed if the Persians had conquered the Greeks?
Answer Key:
1. It was the largest in the ancient world.
2. 300,000 men
3. burn Athens to the ground
4. the democracy of Athens
5. It was a narrow pass with mountains on one side, and the sea on the other
6. 50 to 1
7. The Persians could not use all of the soldiers to fight at one time.
8. He led the Greek soldiers into this battle.
9. Had to hold off the Persian navy.
15. Persians attacked Athens
16. Battle of Marathon
17. the Athenians
18. 1,000 warships
19. 7,000
20. hold the pass, don’t let the Persians through
21. 6 to 1
22. to ram and sink the other ship
23. The Immortals
24. they were crushed
25. were able to get behind the Greek forces and surround them
26. retreat in order to fight another day
27. stay behind and fight
28. Persian arrows
29. All of the 300 Spartans were killed
30. 20,000
31. burned it to the ground
32. the people of Athens had evacuated
33. defeat them
34. held on long enough to allow the other Greeks to retreat so they could fight
another day, plus they became inspiration for other Greek soldiers.
35. democracy