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The Persian Wars

The Persian Wars. West. Civ. Mr. Lawrence. The Persian Empire. The largest Empire in the know world One of the Most powerful empires in History Worshiped the King as God. The Persian Army. Made of thousands of lightly armored, fast troops Built for Desert Warfare

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The Persian Wars

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  1. The Persian Wars West. Civ. Mr. Lawrence

  2. The Persian Empire • The largest Empire in the know world • One of the Most powerful empires in History • Worshiped the King as God

  3. The Persian Army • Made of thousands of lightly armored, fast troops • Built for Desert Warfare • Made of Veteran Troops who had never lost a War • The Immortals • The Kings Personnel Body Guard • Always numbered 10,000 men

  4. Greek Forces • Small in number but extremely well trained • Iron weapons and Armor • Slow Moving built for mountain fighting • Fought in the Phalanx formation which would become the most powerful fighting formation of the Ancient World

  5. The First Persian War • Fought between Athens and Persia • Over the Spread of the Persian Empire into Ionia • The Persian King at this time was Darius the Great • The Athenians Defeated the Persians land forces at the Battle of Marathon • The Persians greatly out numbered the Greeks • However the Phalanx and Iron armor of the Greeks was to powerful for the Persian forces

  6. The Second Persian War • Lead by King Xerxes to conquer all of Greece • The Persians formed the Largest Army the world had ever seen and marched across the Hellespontinto Greece • The Greeks United to face this threat

  7. Timeline of War • The First Major Battle was at Thermopylae (480 BCE) • The Persian Forces burnt Athens (480-479 BCE) • However, they land forces were defeated at the battle of Plataea (479 BCE) • The Persian Navy was destroyed at Salamis (480 BCE)

  8. The Consequences of the War • The Greeks Glorified in their victory • The Athenians would gain in power and build an empire in Greece • Dawning of the Golden Age of Greece • The Persian Empire would lose much of its power and slowly begin to fall apart

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