PPT-The Battle of Salamis

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 modernday 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. 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). Causes. Greek colonies in Asia Minor rebelled against Persian Rule. The Mother cities like Athens sent aid to those cities, which made the Persians mad. According to legend, the Persian Emperor Darius was so mad, he had a servant whisper “Master, don’t forget the Athenians” into his ear every day.. 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. The Persian Wars. A series of battles between Persia and the Greeks that lasted . 50 years. From 499 - 449 BC. Resulted in unifying the Greeks and started the decline of the Persian empire. The Persian Empire. The Battle of Salamis. The Battle of Salamis. The Battle of Salamis: Who?. Athenian Admiral Themistocles. Persian King Xerxes. The Battle of Salamis. Who:. Athenian Admiral Themistocles & the Athenian Navy. 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. the Ancient Greek . Trieres. Military History Lecture Series (November 3, 2011). Dr. Robinson Yost, Assistant Professor, History . Social Sciences Department. Zeus the all-seeing grants to . Athene’s. 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.. 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. (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. 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. 508 BCE . Kleisthenes. established the first . democratic government in Athens. He diminished the influential families by dividing the citizenry into . demes. and . tribes. Citizens were selected by their demes to serve on juries, engaging in this first . 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).