Persian Wars

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Persian Wars
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Change in Greek Army

• Bronze to Iron
• Ordinary Citizens Can Fight
• Merchants
• Artisans
• Small Landowners
• Phalanx Side by side

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Battle at Marathon

• Persians bring 25,000 across Aegean
• Persians lose 6,000
• Athenians lose lt200

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Pheidippides

• Runs first marathon
• Marathon to Athens
• Deliver news of victory

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Xerxes (10 years later)

• Persian Leader
• Son of Darius
• Promises to do what his father couldnt

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Thermopylae and Salamis

• Marches down eastern coast of Greece
• Thermopylae ? 7,000 Greeks (300 Spartans)
• Salamis ? Fight at Sea
• Persians Big Boats
• Greeks Small

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• Battle of Plataea
• Greeks crushed Persians
• Persians always on defensive
• Delian League 478 BC
• Group of City-States ? alliance
• Drove Persians from Greece

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Consequences

• Sense of confidence and freedom
• Athens emerges as leader of DL
• Athens enters Golden Age