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Mind Map by Marisa Beresford, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Marisa Beresford
over 9 years ago
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Greece vs. Persia
- Persians control Ionian Greek cities
- Ionians attempt to revolt but are unsuccesful;
Darius seeks revenge
- Persians attack Marathon - 26 miles from Athens
Pheidippides ran from Marathon to Athen to tell of their
victory but died just after
- 490 BC
- Darius dies and Xerxes becomes new Persian
monarch - vowed revenge and planned to invade
Greece
- Themostocles - Athenian
leader - builds navy with
fleet of 200 vessels while
Spartans build defensive
army
- 480 BC
- Greek forces hold off
Persian troups at
Thermopylae for two
days
- Greeks form largest Greek
army ever and defeat Persian
army at Plataea, northwest of
Athens; Greeks win the war
- 479 BC
- 479 BC
- Greeks form largest Greek
army ever and defeat Persian
army at Plataea, northwest of
Athens; Greeks win the war
- 480 BC
- 486 BC
- Xerxes leads massive
invasion force into
Greece with 180,000
troups and thousands of
warships and supply
vessels
- 480 BC
- Greek forces hold off
Persian troups at
Thermopylae for two
days
- 480 BC
- Themostocles - Athenian
leader - builds navy with
fleet of 200 vessels while
Spartans build defensive
army
- 490 BC
- 499 BC
- Persians attack Marathon - 26 miles from Athens
Pheidippides ran from Marathon to Athen to tell of their
victory but died just after
- Ionians attempt to revolt but are unsuccesful;
Darius seeks revenge
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