PPT-The Battle of Thermopylae

THIS IS SPARTA The Battle of Marathon Spartans showed up two days after the battle was over Three reasons why the Spartans did not help earlier There was more to it than a religious festival. (PAEAN FOR SOLO LYRE ) In Classical antiquity, a Paean was a song of triumph. It comes from the Greek παιάν (also παιήων Unit plan – 5. th. grade. Jordan Brown. Educ. 380. Standards for unit plan:. SS.S.H.CL1.3 Summarize key battles, strategies, and turning points of the Civil War (e.g., Fort Sumter, Antietam, Gettysburg, other regional battles and the surrender at Appomattox). Detail of Persian Campaigns. Difference Between Persia, Greece. Persians. Absolute monarchy, centered on Persian “King of Kings”. Empire of conquered people, fighting b/c their king told them to. Wars between Greeks and Persians in 5. th. century BC. Roughly from 492 – 448 BC. Two main invasions of Greece by . Achaemenid. kings of Persia. Herodotus – primary historian. Map . pf. Persian Empire. Begin . game. You are a person pressed with joining 2 factions, the empire or the rebel alliance. This choice determines your faction whether it be rebel or empire. In this game there is a one of three battles you can choose from, the battle against injury, the battle on the planet surface, or the battle in the sky.. The Oath of Plataea and the End of the . Graeco. -Persian . Wars. Paul Cartledge. Oxford University Press. June 2013. The Aegean Greek World in the Classical Period. From Cartledge, . Ancient Greece . Mark Belianski, Meghan Hennedy, Sankalp Katta, Kartik Mahajan, Shilpa Narayanan. “... the only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril.”. -Winston Churchill. Background. . The . Selfless . Warrior. by max . tusing. Leonidas was a great warrior who put his men before himself. He was the king of . sparta. who led his troops in battle against . xerxes. and the Persian empire in the battle of . (We’re not watching 300). All accounts of war are Greek, no Persian records found . Main source- . Herodotus 484-425BC. “Father of History”. Persian Wars- 499-449 BC. "For the first time, a chronicler set himself to trace the origins of a conflict not to a past so remote so as to be utterly fabulous, nor to the whims and wishes of some god, nor to a people's claim to manifest destiny, but rather explanations he could verify personally.". Explain what forces united the Greek city-states. Identify :. the impact of the Persian Wars on Greece. Battle of Marathon. Battle of Thermopylae. Battle of Salamis. Battle of . Platea. Delian. League. Make them pages 21-25. * Please turn to page 295 in our . red books . Read the introduction to . Chapter 28: Fighting the Persian Wars. Use the map on 295 to tell me how far it is from. Athens . to the . The Greeks slowed down the Persian invasion at the Battle of Thermopylae . Leonidas, his 300 Spartans and about a 1,000 allied troops fight to the death. The Persians continue to push south and invade Athens. The Battle of Salamis WORLD HISTORY READERS Level 3- ⑦ A Sea Battle Near Thermopylae How was the Battle of Thermopylae related to the Battle of Salamis? When the Persians, from modern-day Iran, invaded Greece, Sparta and some other Greek cities sent soldiers to stop Xerxes at the narrow pass of Thermopylae. The Persians won that battle, and the Greek navy had to pull back from where they were fighting the Persians at sea. The Greek fleet of ships moved to a narrow area of water called the Straits of Salamis. Because it was narrow, it was a good place for a small fleet to fight a big one. The second World War defense of the UK by the Royal Air Force against the German Air force (Luftwaffe). Date: 10 July- 31 October 1940. Location: Britain airspace. Result: British victory. WWII’s defense of the UK by the Royal Air Force against an onslaught by the German Air Force (Luftwaffe).