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The place Persia wanted to expand its empire into.
What is Greece?
This city was burned after the Battle of Thermopylae.
What is Athens?
The name of the man who put together a plan for Greece to win their war with Persia after the Battle of Thermopylae.
Who is Themistocles?
A narrow mountain pass in Greece; site where the Greeks were defeated by the Persians.
What is Thermopylae?
The middle name of LeBron James.
What is Raymone?
The year in which Greek city-states rebelled against the Persians.
When is 499 BC?
This man was the son of Darius who decided to continue the war with the Greeks.
Who is Xerxes?
The side that had faster and smaller ships.
Who are the Greeks?
The Wars between the Persians and the Greeks.
What are the Persian Wars?
The civilization that Chapter 8 in the textbook covers.
What is ancient Greece?
The year in which Darius and his army sailed to Marathon to punish the Greeks for rebelling.
When is 490 BC?
Xerxes had a bridge built across this strait which was between Asia Minor and Greece.
What is the Hellespont?
The name of the island that Themistocles decided to fight the Persians off of.
What is Salamis?
Who is Xerxes?
The main religion of ancient Persia.
What is Zoroastrianism?
This side lost the Battle of Marathon.
Who are the Persians?
This city-state joined Athens in their fight against the Persians.
What is Sparta?
The side that won the battle at Salamis.
Who are the Greeks?
An ancient plain in Greece, the site of the battle in which the Athenian army defeated the Persian army.
What is Marathon?
The name of the special forces of the Persian kings.
What are the Immortals?
The name of a race that lasts 26.2 miles, which comes from a Greek legend.
What is a marathon?
The place where the Greeks decided to position their forces, only to become surrounded after a traitor told the Persians their position.
What is Thermopylae?
The side that was ultimately defeated in the Persian Wars.
Who are the Persians?
An island off the coast of Greece; site where the Greeks defeated the Persians in a naval battle.
What is Salamis?
The capital city of ancient Persia.
What is Persepolis?