Persian Wars

The leader of the Persians when they first attacked Greece in 490BCE.

• Darius

• Alexander the Great

• Xerxes

• Cleopatra

True or False? The first Persian War was mostly a land-based attack.

As a result of a land battle that occurred 40km from the city-state of Athens, this Olympic event came into being.

The initial event which triggered the Persians to invade Greece, which occurred in 499BCE was

• the Greek cities of Anatolia, with help from Athens, revolted against their Persian overlords

• the ancient Greece city-state of Sparta attempting to invade Persia

• Athens excluding Persia from trade

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The 2nd Persian invasion was led by

• Darius

• Xerxes

• Alexander the Great

• Cleopatra

Xerxes prepared for the invasion of Greece by

• building a floating bridge to carry his army across the narrow strait called the Hellespont that separates Europe from Asia

• gathering together a huge army of spearmen, archers and cavalry from all over the Persian Empire

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To defend ancient Greece from the 2nd Persian invasion the 31 city-states

• had to unite after many years of rivalry and fighting

• had to form one government

• adopted a democratic system of government

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At Thermopylae in 480 BCE

• the Spartan king, Leonidas, held a narrow mountain pass against the Persians delaying their advance

• a Greek fleet fought three battles against the much larger Persian fleet

• The Athenians captured Xerxes

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True or False? The 2nd Persian War commenced in 480BCE

In the second Persian War, the invasion force assembled at

• Sardes in preparation to cross the Hellespont Strait separating Asia from Europe

• Marathon to invade Athens

• the island of Rhodes to sail across the Aegean Sea

• the island of Rhodes to sail across the sea of Crete