Transcript The Persian Wars

Warm-up
• Copy HW
• Please grab pages the next 5 pages from your notebooks
• 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 mouth of the Indus
River at the Arabian Sea
Essential Questions!!!
• How does where you live affect how you live?
• How do culture and technology reflect values?
• How can societies use what they have learned
from the past?
• What happens when different cultures interact
with one another?
Please look at the back of page 17 in your notebook
for our first activity today
Lions
Wildcats
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Strengths
• Strengths
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Weaknesses
• Weaknesses
The Persian Wars
Q-R-Q-R
• Please QRQR page 296 in conjunction with
workbook page 21 called…
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Reading Notes: Section 2
Q-2
R-6
Q-6
R-12 With your team and me!!!
Darius
• King of the Persians
• 522-486 B.C.E.
• Politician
• Military leader
Persian Army
• The Ten Thousand Immortals
• So many if one died
they were simply
replaced by the next man
Why was the Persian Army so strong?
• Large size
• Good Training
• Calvary-men on horseback
• Excellent archers
Why did Darius want control of the
city-states in Asia Minor?
• Gain control of trade routes
• Obtain more resources
How were Persia and Greece different?
Greece
* Independent city-states
Persia
• Empire
* Divided by geography
• United under one king
* Various types of democracy
and oligarchy
• Tyranny
Ionia
• City-State near Persia (east coast of the Aegean Sea)
• Rich soil and excellent harbors
The Persians take over Ionia…
• Puppet Government
Which Greek City-States Helped Ionia?
Which City-state did not help?
• Sparta-they said it was too far to march
The Persian Became very upset
with___________.
• Athens
Battle!!!!!
Warm-up
• Copy HW-Read 299-=300 (2 battle
worksheets)-just like last night
• Please take out you HW about the Marathon
and Thermopylae
• Review your answers with your team
Essential Questions???
• How does where you live affect how you live?
• How do culture and technology reflect values?
• How can societies use what they have learned
from the past?
• What happens when different cultures interact
with one another?
Battle of Marathon
Why did Darius and the Persian invade
Mainland Greece?
• To prevent further rebellions,
such as the Ionian Revolt
Battle Statistics
Greeks
Persians
• 9,000 troops
• 20,000 troops
• 200 ships
Battle of Marathon
What were the Spartans doing???
• They had a religious festival going on so they
didn’t come and help
Who won and how did they win????
• The Greeks (Athenians)
• The Persians sent their
cavalry away towards
Athens and Miltiades
(Athenian leader)
attacked while the
cavalry is gone!
Pheidippides
• “Marathon” runner/Athenian messenger
• Runs from Marathon to Athens ~26 miles and
tells the news of victory- “NIKE”
Lights Camera Action!!!!
Thermopylae
Battle of Thermopylae
Xerxes
• Son of Darius
• Persian leader
at
Thermopylae
Persian Forces-March to Greece
• 600 ships
• Hellespont
250,000 men
Bridge of boats
Athenian Navy
Prevent reinforcements to the Persian army
from Asia Minor
Leonidas
• King of Spartan forces at Thermopylae
Geography of Thermopylae
The Spartans
defended a
small, narrow
mountain
pass
How were the Persians successful?
• A Greek Traitor showed the Persians another
way around the mountain pass
Who won???
• The Persians, but…
• The Spartans held off the Persians long
enough for the Athenians to evacuate their
city and prepare to fight another day
• They inspired the Greeks to fight on!!!!
Lights Camera Action!!!
Warm-up
• Copy HW-Quiz tomorrow (Marathon,
Thermopylae, Salamis)
• Please take out you HW about the Salamis and
Plataea
• Review your answers with your team
Essential Questions!!!
• How does where you live affect how you live?
• How do culture and technology reflect values?
• How can societies use what they have learned
from the past?
• What happens when different cultures interact
with one another?
Battle of Salamis
The Athenians fled to the island of Salamis
Themistocles
• Athenian general-fights the Persians in a naval
battle
Send a false message about Themistocles being
a traitor
Greek ships are lighter and easier to
maneuver so they win!!!
Lights Camera Action!!!
Plataea
• Xerxes leaves Greece
• His army stays behind and moves towards
Athens once again!!
Plataea
• Athenians and Spartans joined forces to defeat
the Persians once and for all!
Lights Camera Action!!!!
Battle!!!!
Review
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Location
Order of the 3 Battles
Geography
Victor
Why/How they won???
Comic Strip
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Dates
Importance of Geography
Compare Greece and Persia
Darius
Ten Thousand Immortals
Ionia
Athens
Marathon
Pheidippides- “NIKE”
Xerxes
Thermopylae
Sparta
Leonidas
Salamis
Themistocles
Winner and losers??????