Warm-up

• Copy HW

• Please grab pages the next 5 pages from your notebooks

• Make them pages 21-25

* Please turn to page 295 in our red books

• Read the introduction to Chapter 28: Fighting the Persian Wars

• Use the map on 295 to tell me how far it is from Athens to the mouth of the Indus River at the Arabian Sea

Essential Questions!!!

• How does where you live affect how you live?

• How do culture and technology reflect values?

• How can societies use what they have learned from the past?

• What happens when different cultures interact with one another?

Please look at the back of page 17 in your notebook for our first activity today

Lions• Strengths

• Weaknesses

Wildcats• Strengths

• Weaknesses

The Persian Wars

Q-R-Q-R

• Please QRQR page 296 in conjunction with workbook page 21 called…

• Reading Notes: Section 2 • Q-2• R-6• Q-6• R-12 With your team and me!!!

Darius

• King of the Persians

• 522-486 B.C.E.

• Politician• Military leader

Persian Army

• The Ten Thousand Immortals

• So many if one died they were simply replaced by the next man

Why was the Persian Army so strong?

• Large size

• Good Training

• Calvary-men on horseback

• Excellent archers

Why did Darius want control of the city-states in Asia Minor?

• Gain control of trade routes

• Obtain more resources

How were Persia and Greece different?

Greece* Independent city-states

* Divided by geography

* Various types of democracy and oligarchy

Persia• Empire

• United under one king

• Tyranny

Ionia

• City-State near Persia (east coast of the Aegean Sea)• Rich soil and excellent harbors

The Persians take over Ionia…

• Puppet Government

Which Greek City-States Helped Ionia?

Which City-state did not help?

• Sparta-they said it was too far to march

The Persian Became very upset with___________.

• Athens

Battle!!!!!

Warm-up

• Copy HW-Read 299-=300 (2 battle worksheets)-just like last night

• Please take out you HW about the Marathon and Thermopylae

• Review your answers with your team

Essential Questions???

• How does where you live affect how you live?

• How do culture and technology reflect values?

• How can societies use what they have learned from the past?

• What happens when different cultures interact with one another?

Battle of Marathon

Why did Darius and the Persian invade Mainland Greece?

• To prevent further rebellions, such as the Ionian Revolt

Battle Statistics

Greeks

• 9,000 troops

Persians

• 20,000 troops

• 200 ships

Battle of Marathon

What were the Spartans doing???

• They had a religious festival going on so they didn’t come and help

Who won and how did they win????

• The Greeks (Athenians)

• The Persians sent their cavalry away towards Athens and Miltiades (Athenian leader) attacked while the cavalry is gone!

Pheidippides• “Marathon” runner/Athenian messenger• Runs from Marathon to Athens ~26 miles and

tells the news of victory- “NIKE”

Lights Camera Action!!!!

Thermopylae

Battle of Thermopylae

Xerxes

• Son of Darius

• Persian leader at Thermopylae

Persian Forces-March to Greece

• 600 ships 250,000 men

• Hellespont Bridge of boats

Athenian Navy

Prevent reinforcements to the Persian army from Asia Minor

Leonidas

• King of Spartan forces at Thermopylae

Geography of Thermopylae

The Spartans defended a small, narrow mountain pass

How were the Persians successful?

• A Greek Traitor showed the Persians another way around the mountain pass

Who won???

• The Persians, but…

• The Spartans held off the Persians long enough for the Athenians to evacuate their city and prepare to fight another day

• They inspired the Greeks to fight on!!!!

Lights Camera Action!!!

Warm-up

• Copy HW-Quiz tomorrow (Marathon, Thermopylae, Salamis)

• Please take out you HW about the Salamis and Plataea

• Review your answers with your team

Essential Questions!!!

• How does where you live affect how you live?

• How do culture and technology reflect values?

• How can societies use what they have learned from the past?

• What happens when different cultures interact with one another?

Battle of Salamis

The Athenians fled to the island of Salamis

Themistocles• Athenian general-fights the Persians in a naval

battle

Send a false message about Themistocles being a traitor

Greek ships are lighter and easier to maneuver so they win!!!

Lights Camera Action!!!

Plataea

• Xerxes leaves Greece

• His army stays behind and moves towards Athens once again!!

Plataea

• Athenians and Spartans joined forces to defeat the Persians once and for all!

Lights Camera Action!!!!

Battle!!!!

Review

• Location• Order of the 3 Battles• Geography• Victor• Why/How they won???

Comic Strip

• Dates• Importance of Geography• Compare Greece and Persia• Darius• Ten Thousand Immortals• Ionia• Athens• Marathon• Pheidippides- “NIKE”• Xerxes• Thermopylae• Sparta• Leonidas• Salamis• Themistocles• Winner and losers??????