the persian wars battle of marathon (490 bce)

3
April 29, 2014 The Persian Wars - while the Greek city-states developed, Persian empire emerged under Cyrus the Great (6th c. BCE) - Darius I (522 BCE) took over and wanted to expand the empire through to the coast of Turkey to the Aegean - They needed naval bases and trading centers so captured Greek outposts on Ionian coast - 499 BCE Athens and Eretia helped the Ionian states in a rebellion against Persia; the rebellion was crushed 5 years later (494 BCE)...but Persia is annoyed - Darius, in response to Greek interference decided to invade the mainland (490 BCE) which he thought would be easy because the Greeks were not united Battle of Marathon (490 BCE) 481 BCE - Congress at the Isthmus of Corinth - First Greek attempt at joining together to form a national league, because of fear that the Persians will come back - Themistocles, an Athenian general, agrees to put the Athenian fleet under Spartan command Themistocles

Upload: others

Post on 18-Jan-2022

1 views

Category:

Documents


0 download

TRANSCRIPT

Page 1: The Persian Wars Battle of Marathon (490 BCE)

April 29, 2014The Persian Wars

- while the Greek city-states developed, Persian empire emerged under Cyrus the Great (6th c. BCE)

- Darius I (522 BCE) took over and wanted to expand the empire through to the coast of Turkey to the Aegean

- They needed naval bases and trading centers so captured Greek outposts on Ionian coast- 499 BCE Athens and Eretia helped the Ionian states in a rebellion against Persia; the rebellion was crushed 5 years later (494 BCE)...but Persia is annoyed

- Darius, in response to Greek interference decided to invade the mainland (490 BCE) which he thought would be easy because the Greeks were not united

Battle of Marathon (490 BCE)

481 BCE - Congress at the Isthmus of Corinth- First Greek attempt at joining together to form a national league, because of fear that the Persians will come back

- Themistocles, an Athenian general, agrees to put the Athenian fleet under Spartan command

Themistocles

Page 2: The Persian Wars Battle of Marathon (490 BCE)

April 29, 2014

Thermopylae

XerxesLeonidas

- Persian army at Thermopylae is about

half the size of the entire population of

Greece!

Battle of Salamis

Page 3: The Persian Wars Battle of Marathon (490 BCE)

April 29, 2014

For today:

Complete the chart on the battles of the Persian Wars (using pages 114-117 in your textbook).