PERSIAN PREPARATIONS 480-479BC - created from Mind Map

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WHY THE DELAY?

MARDONIUS IN HDT'S.ACCOUNT

ROUTE

ARTABANUS

PREPARATIONS

PERSIAN FORCES

HELLESPONT

EARTH AND WATER

REASONS FOR INVASION

DELAY OF TEN YEARS

DEATH OF DARIUS IN 486

EGYPTIAN REBELLION IN 486-484

REVOLT IN BABYON IN 482

PREPARATIONS NEEDED FOR ANOTHER INVASION

HERODOTUS SUGGESTS AT FIRST XERXES IS NOT INTERESTED IN INVADING GREECE

BUT BY ARGUMENTS FROM HIS COUSIN, MARDONIUS PERSUADED THE KING, WITH HELP FROM GREEK EXILES TO INVADE

MARDONIUS IS AMBITIOUS AND MAY HAVE ENVISIONED RULE FOR HIMSELF OF GREECE ONCE CONQUERED

"IT IS NOT REASONABLE THAT THE ATHENIANS WHO HAVE DONE THE PERSIANS A GREAT DEAL OF HARM SHOULD NOT PAY THE PENALTY FOR WHAT THEY HAVE DONE"

"LEAD YOUR MEN AGAINST THE ATHENIANS SO YOU MAT HAVE A NOBLE REPUTATION AMONGST MEN AND EVERYONE AFTER THIS WILL BE WARY OF MARCHING IN YOUR TERRITORY"

REVENGE

PISISTRATIDS OF ATHENS

ALLEUADAE OF THESSALLY GAVE MEESAGE TO XERXES FOR ASSISTANCE

PERSONAL HONOUR

PUNISH ATHENS

KNOWLEGED OF GREEKS AND GREECE USEFUL

ACHIEVE NO LESS THAN HIS PREDECESSORS

TWO REBELLIONS IN HIS RULE NEEDS TO SHOW POWER

LAND AND SEA

SAME ROUTE AS MARDONIUS IN 492

CAPE ATHOS DESTROYED AND SURPRISE ATTACK ON THRACE

UNCLE

HOW PLATEANS AND ATHENIANS DESTROYED THEM AT MARATHON

THAT BRIDGING THE HELLESPONT IS A BAD AS IF ITS DESTROYED YOUR TRAPPED

"GOD PUNISHES SEVERLY TO ARROGANT PEOPLE WHO PUT THEMSELEVES ON A LEVEL WITH GOD"

SECONDARY PREPARATIONS

ATHOS CANAL

GREAT STRYMON RIVER BRIDGED NEAR MOUTH

CAREFULY SELECTED SITES ALONG COAST OF THRACE AND MACEDONIA

SAFE ROUTE AND IF WIN THEN CONNECTIONS WITH GREECE

RECRUITING AN ARMY AND NAVY

COASTAL PROVINCES PROVIDED WARSHIPS AND BOAS FOR FLOATING BRIDGES AND OTHER NAVAL CRAFTS

"XERXES IN PROCESS OF ASSEMBLING HIS ARMIES HAD EVERY CORNER OF THE CONTINENT RANSACKED"

"IN VIEW OF THE PREVIOUS DISASTER TO THE FLEET OFF MT ATHOS"

PROVISION DUMPS TO FEED ARMY

HERODOTUS TELLS US 3 MILLION

XERXES GOES HIMSELF-SHOWS HOW IMPORTANT THIS IS TO HIM

LIKELY 200,000 WITH 10,000 OF THOSE TO BE ELITE IMMORTALS

TWO FLOATING BRIDGES, 7 FURLONGS LONG

FROM ASIA TO EUROPE

FROM SESTOS TO ABYDOS

XERXES REACHES SARDIS AND SENDS RESENTATIVES

DEMANDS EARTH AND WATER TO ALL CITY STATES MINUS SPARTA AND ATHENS

MARDONIUS - XERXES WILL BE CONTINUING DARIUS' WORK

HE WOULD BE HELD IN GREAT HONOUR

PUNISHMENT OF ATHENS WILL DETER OTHERS FROM ATTACKING THE PERSIAN EMPIRE

XERXES WOULD BE GIVEN LOTS OF SUPPORT: DEMARATUS (EX-KING OF SPARTA), PISISTRATIDS OF ATHENS