Persian war 2
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- Now that I am king, I will get revenge against Greece and the Athenians. They have always tried to ruin Persia's plans!
- Xerxes, we should pray to our one god that we win against the evil Greeks.
- My fellow Greeks, we must unite to fight and beat the Persians. They are sending over 200,000 people and thousands of war ships to fight us. We must unite. I, King Leonidas will supply some soldiers.
- When the Persians start to load their ships to attack Athens, the Athenians ran down the hills and blindsided the Persians.
- In 480 B.C.E. a new king, named Xerxes, wanted revenge on Greece. He wanted to invade Greece with many troops and boats.
- Some Greek city-states banded together to defeat Persia. King Leonidas from Sparta supplied most of the troops.
- King Leonidas led 7,000 men Into the battle of Thermopylae. He realized that they would be defeated and send most troops away. He and 300 heroic Spartans stayed and fought to their deaths but lost.
- Themistocles, from Athens, had a plan to trap the Persians ships in the strait of Salamis, because the Persians had big ships and the Greeks had small ships the greeks wouldn't get stuck. This plan worked 300 Persian ships got sunk in this battle.
- In 479 B.C.E. the Greek city-states formed their largest army. They fought the Persians at Plataea. Each army had about 100,000 troops. The Greeks ended up beating the Persian army. They continued to fight and the Greeks ended up freeing city-states. Fighting continued till 449 B.C.E.
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