Doing this Sparta and Athens won the war against the Persians, but ended up losing to Rome. Leonidas impacted our generation today by giving us entertainment, courage, and a basis for a need for a strong military. He lived from about 540 B.C. to August 11, 480 B.C. in the battle of Thermopylae.
Alexander's empire did not hold. The generals who succeeded him lacked his vision, and they spent the remainder of their careers fighting over the spoils of his conquests. Seleucus gained control over Persia, Mesopotamia, and Syria, where an empire under his name would rule for many years, and Ptolemy established a dynasty of even longer standing in Egypt. His descendants ruled until 30 B.C, when the last of his line, Cleopatra was defeated by a new and even bigger empire,
Following on, the King would generalize and plan out military campaigns. Through these campaigns, guards called ‘ephors’ follow and observe the Kings actions. By doing this, the King had limits and wasn’t able to conduct illegal actions. By failing to proceed to war without any problems, the ephors would report back to Sparta and from there, the King would be recalled and exiled. Through this we can represent Source 2.7, a statue on behalf of Leonidas, a renowned King of Sparta who lead the three hundred men.
In three hundred and thirty five B.C (335 B.C), as general of the Greeks in a campaign against the Persians originally planned by his father, he carried out a successful campaign against the defecting Thracians, penetrating to the Danube River. When he returned, he defeated the Illyrians in a single week. In Thebes, he spared only the temples of the gods and the house of the Greek lyric poet Pindar. The eight
The Persians ran out of supplies and returned after the defeat of Marathon. The second invasion of Greece by the Persians happened in the year 480 BC. Xerxes was the Persian King at this time. He gathered a huge army. This army attacked the Greeks at Thermopylae, a town just north of
Prior to becoming king, Darius placed Xerxes in the position of satrap of Babylon for 12 years from him to gain experience in a position of power and authority. Also in 498 a palace was built for the kings’ son in Babylon. The invasion of Greece, planned by his father, was put on hold because he faced a rebellion in Egypt in 486bc. Xerxes led the campaign against Egypt and ‘decisively crushed them’ (Herodotus) and reduced the Egyptians to abject slavery and placed the country once again firmly under Persian control. Unlike, his father, who made
At this point in history the Persian Empire was colossal it was the largest ancient Empire ever known and it was looking to expand its territory into Greece. Darius was the prevailing leader of the Achaemenid Persian Empire (550–330 BC) and he sent his armada to attack an inferior country which was Greece. This campaign of destruction was led by Darius’s son in law Mardonius in 490 B.C this was the second campaign distributed by Darius the Great. The fleet of 200 ships and 30 000 troops towards Athens and on the way conquers several Greek islands. Once the ship landed on the eastern bays of Greece the battle of Marathon was going to take place.
By overthrowing the Persian Empire and by spreading Hellenism, Greek culture, language, thought, and way of life, as far as India, Alexander was instrumental in creating a new Hellenistic era. Alexander was able to maintain the enormous territory that he conquered by never stopping or backing down, he continued to push forward no matter what. He was only thirty-two, but in just thirteen years he had created an empire that stretched from his homeland of Macedonia to India. As he plunged deeper into the East conquering lands he founded new cities and military colonies, which scattered Greeks and Macedonians throughout the East. This was how he controlled all the land he conquered.
Pericles was the most prominent politician in Athens from 461 until 429 BC. He encouraged his fellow Athenians to use the tribute money the League collected to underwrite the development of Greek culture. During this time Athens was also known as the “school of Hellas.” Pericles at the time was more of a tyranny than a limited democracy. Sadly, Pericles was a victim of the plague that swept Athens at the beginning of the Peloponnesian War. During the second Persian war,
The Persian Wars was an 11-year skirmish between the Greeks and Persians. In the period 480 to 479BC, the 2nd invasion of Greece by the Persians, the Persians where defeated by the Greeks in seemingly impossible odds. One single factory cannot be held accountable for the Greeks’ victory, but rather an amalgamation of factors. These factors include unity and communication, morale, leadership, strategy, warfare, and geographical knowledge. Each factor played a definitive role in the various battles, ensuring the Greek’s ultimate success.