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Name the Battle
Vocabulary
Ionian Revolt
Randomness
100
This Persian lost at the Battle of Marathon.
Who is Darius?
100
A Persian victory credited to a traitor that showed them a pass through the mountains.
What is the Battle of Thermopylae?
100
The long, narrow body of water near present-day Turkey that Xerxes crossed using "boat bridges".
What is the Hellespont?
100
The Ionian Revolt started this.
What is the cause of the Greek-Persian wars?
100
It is surprising that Athens and Sparta worked together to fight Persia because they were ______________.
What are rivals?
200
This Persian was Darius' son.
Who is Xerxes?
200
The battle in which Xerxes was tricked into a narrow channel.
What is Salamis?
200
Soldiers who ride on horses.
What is cavalry?
200
The small country where the Persians started out as a small tribe.
What is Iran?
200
The city-state known for its great navy.
What is Athens?
300
The Spartan king who led his men in the final stand of the 300 at Thermoplyae.
Who is Leonidas?
300
The battle in which Miltiades attacked from the front and sides.
What is Marathon?
300
A country or group that joins together for a common purpose.
What is an ally?
300
What Ionia was.
What is a Greek colony?
300
The city-state known for its fierce warriors and army?
What is Sparta?
400
The Athenian naval officer who tricked Xerxes at Salamis.
Who is Themistocles?
400
The decisive battle in which the Spartans led 80,000 Greek troops.
What is Plataea?
400
The conflict between Persia and the Greek city-states between 499 and 479 B.C.E.
What are the Persian wars?
400
The name of the Ionian city that Persians eventually burned.
What is Miletus?
400
The effect/importance of Greek victory during the Persian wars.
What is perserved Greek independence and prevented Persia from conquering all of Europe?
500
The runner that Miltiades sent to Sparta to ask for help at Marathon.
Who is Pheidippides?
500
The battle in which the Greeks were outnumbered at least 30 to 1.
What is Thermopylae?
500
The largest empire the world had ever known - its height was in the 400s B.C.E.
What is the Persian Empire?
500
The provinces that King Darius split his empire into were called these.
What are satrapies?
500
The length of the Greek-Persian wars.
What is about 20 years?
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