March 10,2011

Ancient Greece

1. Sparta was a major city and was well known for their army and was the leader of all Greek forces
2. Peloponnese was at the heart of Ancient Greece 
3. The Greek Revolution broke out in Peloponnese in 1821
4. Was the scene of the Peloponnesian War
5. The Persian Empire was the greatest empire in the entire ancient world
6. Cyrus was one of the best Persian kings and he also conquered alot of other empires
7. The Greeks did not like the Persians because the Persians drafted them into their army
8. The Greeks started to call together counsels and the Persians didn't like this so they destroyed their whole city
9. Herodotus was a Greek historian
10. Ionia is the ancient region of central coastal Anatolia in present day Turkey
11. Ionia was founded by Greek colonists from the other side of the Aegean Sea
12. A large part of Ionia was covered in mountains but they also had extremely fertile valleys with many rivers
13. Barbarians were people living north of the Roman Empire
14. Cyrus founded the first world empire after defeating the median dynasty and uniting the Medes with the Persians
15. His to sons, Cambyses 1 and Arsames ruled after he died
16. The Cyrus cylinder was discovered in Babylon. It includes the detailed account of Cyrus and his conquest of Babylon
17. Darius the Great was the King of Persia from 521-486 BC, he was one of the greatest rulers of the Achaemenid Dynasty
18. During the Battle of Marathon the Greeks left their homeland and went to Ionia
19. The Greeks didn't like the way the Persians ruled so they stepped in
20. The Battle of Marathon is part of the Persian War
21. The Greeks won the Battle of Marathon by encircling the Perisans
22. Xerxes was the king on Persia in 486 BC
23. When Xerxes came into power he started to plan to invade Greece, first by land then by sea
24. The Bridge of Hellespont was created by Xerxes demanding boats to connect together and create a bridge
25. The Bridge of Hellespont was used for Xerxes men to cross from Asia to Europe but it was destroyed in a huge storm
26. Leonidas was a king of Sparta, he formed an army of 4,000-7,000 men to fight in the Battle of Thermopylae where he later died
27. The Battle of Thermopylae was fought between the Greeks combined with the Spartans against the Persians
28.  During two full days of battle, the small force led by King Leonidas I of Sparta blocked the only road by which the massive Persian army could pass, a local resident named Ephialtes betrayed the Greeks by revealing a small path that led behind the Greek lines