Strength in Numbers
The two most powerful Greek cities.
What are Athens and Sparta?
This man was a Persian general.
Who is Mardonius?
Mardonius' reasons for wanting to attack Greece.
What is he hated the Greeks and he wanted to be their governor?
A narrow water-way.
What is a strait?
The Greek cities united and called themselves this.
What is the Greek League?
This man was King of Persia during the Battles of Thermopylae and Salamis.
Who is King Xerxes?
King Xerxes wanted to attack Greece because he wanted________________________________.
What is to finish what his father tried to do and to conquer more lands?
The Greeks liked to fight in ___________________ landscapes.
What is small, narrow or tight?
This number of Spartans attempted to fight Xerxes' army.
What is 300?
The King of Persia prior to King Xerxes.
Who is King Darius?
"Greece will be saved by walls of wood." Themistocles felt this meant Greece would be saved by _____________.
What are ships?
Spartans tried to block this passage with soldiers to keep the Persians from entering Greece by fighting them head on.
What is Thermopylae?
What is 1,200?
He led the Spartans to battle at Thermopylae.
Who is Leonidas?
Water made him so mad he ordered his men to whip it!
Who is Xerxes?
Themistocles lined this strait with ships hidden behind a peninsula to surprise attack the Persians.
What is the Strait of Salamis?
Although they fought hard at first, eventually all ___________ Spartans were killed at the Battle of Thermopylae.
What is 300?
He led the Greek League to battle at Salamis.
Who is Themistocles?
At first he was admired for his win at the Battle of Salamis, but then he started to brag a lot.
Who is Thermistocles?
What is the Aegan Sea?