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    1) The Persian army led by King Xerxes invaded Greece with over 100,000 soldiers known as the "Immortals". King Leonidas of Sparta led 300 elite Spartan soldiers plus allies to hold the narrow pass of Thermopylae against the Persians to allow the Greek armies to escape. 2) After a few days, a Greek traitor named Ephialtes led the Persians around the pass via a hidden path. With their position compromised, most Greek troops withdrew but Leonidas and his 300 Spartans stayed and fought to the death. 3) The Persians then defeated the Greek fleet at Artemisium and the Athenians later defeated

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    1) The Persian army led by King Xerxes invaded Greece with over 100,000 soldiers known as the "Immortals". King Leonidas of Sparta led 300 elite Spartan soldiers plus allies to hold the narrow pass of Thermopylae against the Persians to allow the Greek armies to escape. 2) After a few days, a Greek traitor named Ephialtes led the Persians around the pass via a hidden path. With their position compromised, most Greek troops withdrew but Leonidas and his 300 Spartans stayed and fought to the death. 3) The Persians then defeated the Greek fleet at Artemisium and the Athenians later defeated

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    Greeks and Persians: Greeks Fight The Immortals

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    1) The Persian army led by King Xerxes invaded Greece with over 100,000 soldiers known as the "Immortals". King Leonidas of Sparta led 300 elite Spartan soldiers plus allies to hold the narrow pass of Thermopylae against the Persians to allow the Greek armies to escape. 2) After a few days, a Greek traitor named Ephialtes led the Persians around the pass via a hidden path. With their position compromised, most Greek troops withdrew but Leonidas and his 300 Spartans stayed and fought to the death. 3) The Persians then defeated the Greek fleet at Artemisium and the Athenians later defeated

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    GreeksandPersians

    ThePersianInvasionofGreece

    GreeksFighttheImmortals
    Onthethirdday,Leonidasledhis300Spartan hoplites(elitetroopsselectedbecausetheyhad livingsonsbackhome)plusthealliedThespians and Thebans against Xerxes and his army of "100,000 Immortals." The Spartanled5 forces fought this unstoppable6 Persian force to their deathsinordertoblockthepasslongenoughto keep Xerxes and his army occupied while the restoftheGreekarmyescaped.

    In499BC,theGreekcitiesinAnatoliarebelled. Theydidn'twantPersiatorule1 themanymore. Athenssent20ships2tofightthePersiansonthe sea.TheGreeksinAnatoliaweredefeated3.The PersianKing,DariusdecidedtopunishAthens. He sent soldiers and ships to fight Athens. Athens asked for help from Sparta. Sparta wanted to help but couldn't. Athens sent her TheAristeiaofDieneces soldiers against the Persian soldiers and at the BattleofMarathon(in490BC)theydefeatedthe TheSpartanDieneceswassovirtuousthatwhen he was told that there were so many Persian Persians.ThenthehelpfromSpartacame. archersthattheskywouldgrowdarkwiththe flyingmissiles,hislaconicreplywas:"Somuch EphialtesandAnopaia thebetterwewillfightthemintheshade7." Unfortunately for Leonidas, after a couple of AfterThermopylaemanyGreeks wantedtogo days,amedizing4traitornamedEphialtesledthe southtothePeloponnese.Becauseoftheseathe PersiansaroundthepassbehindtheGreekarmy. wayintothePeloponneseisverynarrow.Many ThenameofEphialtes'pathbehindthepassat wanted to fight the Persians where it is very Thermopylae (which means "hot gates") is narrow,bythecityofCorinth.Athenswasnorth Anopaea (or Anopaia); its exact location is ofCorinthandshe8hadmanyships. debated.LeonidassentawaymostoftheGreek Athens'leaderThemistocleswantedtofightthe troops. Persians by the island of Salamis. Xerxes decidedtosendhisfleetagainsttheGreekfleet9 before the Greek ships could go to the
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    Peloponnese and the Greek fleet defeated the Persians.Xerxesthenwenthomewithmanyof hissoldiersbutaPersianarmystayedinGreece. ThisPersianarmywasdefeated10attheBattleof Plateain479BC. 1. Copythetextinyournotebook 2. How does Ephialtes look like in the movieyouarewatching? 3. Why did the Greek Anatolian cities rebel? 4. WhydidDariusdecidetopunishAthens? 5. WhodefeatedthePersiansatthebattleof Marathon? 6. WhobetrayedtheGreeks? 7. WhatisthemeaningofThermopylae? 8. HowmanysoldiershadXerxes? 9. IsthesceneofDienecesandthearchers presentinthemovie300? 10. WholeadedtheGreeksinthebattleof Salamis? 11. Were the Persians defeated again after Salamis?

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