Thursday, March 10, 2011

3-10 Greece

Cyrus the Great- found the first world empire after defeating the Median dynasty and uniting the Medes with other major Iranian tribe, the Persians.

Darius the Great-He was known to be one of the greatest rulers of the Persian dynasty.

Marathon-Greeks left their mainland and ended up in Iona. Iona was later taken over by Persia. Greeks won the war. First victory for the Greeks in the Persian war.

Xerxes:Biggest army ever assembled. revenge is fathers defeat.

Leonidas- one of the few Spartan kings to have ever undergone the notoriously harsh training of Spartan youth. He was a hero king of Sparta. Lost the battle of Thermopaly.

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