Persians

o Persian War
o Person
Cyrus II
Captured Ionia
o Who started first rebellion
Darius I
First Persian king to loose battle
Xerxes
Looses Greece conquer
Themistocles
Had the idea to use silver found
Told to use it to build a big navy because he believed
Persians were coming back for Athens
o Place & Events
Battle of Marathon
Darius 1
Persia attacks Athens for helping Ionians in the Ionian
revolt
10,000 hoplite vs 20,000 persians
Athens votes to fight Persians
Wins
o Own people was fighting unlike the Persian slaves
o Had homefield advantange and was fighting for
their home
o Had hoplite armor vs weak Persian armor
Battle of Salamis
Xerxes has 600 triremes
Still lost to Athens
Was caught in cannel where their big ships werent as good
as the narrow Athenian Triremes
Important
o Persian fleet is destroyed
o No more Persian navy
o
Battle of Platea
Xerxes
70,000 Persians vs 40,000 Hoplite
Athens won due to armor
Important
o Begins Golden/Classical age of Greece

o Greece will no longer be conquered by Persia after

this

o Thing
Delian League
480
Greek Polis that wanted to fight Persia
o Sparta, Athens
Tried stopping Persians at Thermopolae with Spartans
(300)
Athenian Empire
Conquered by Persian Cyrus
Revolted against Persia
o Started whole revolt/war with Persian and Greece
Alexander the Great
o Person
Philip II
Macedonian King
Kicked nephew off Throne
Pays for hoplite armor for Hoplites
Also invented new weapon
18ft-long spears
Destroys barbarians that keep attacking Macedonian
o Hurt them so badly, they never attacked again
Faught Greece and won
o Macedonia now unified first time ever
Phillip meets in theature to meet with representatives, guy
comes and stabs him
o Thinks his son Alexander planned it
Alexander now king
Alexander III
Alexander the Great
Faught and conquered Persia
323 sick at party
Lost first battle in India because they were scared of
elephants
Darius III
Persian King who kept loosing to Alexander
o Place

Macedonia
Where Phillip 2 and Alexander 3 (The Great) was from

o Events
Battle of Chaeronea
Fight with Greece
Won
First time Macedonia was unifed
Battle of Issus
2nd battle against Persia
Alex wanted to capture of kill Darius 3
Darius flees like the other times
Battle of Gaugamela
Last battle of Macedonia and Persians
Darius flees
Found later killed by his officers and dead on the road