The battle of Thermopylae was a classic underdog story‚ with a small group of determined soldiers fighting a vast‚ impenetrable army. This conflict was much like The Battle of Morgarten between Austria and Switzerland in 1315. Duke Leopold I of Austria‚ decided to put Europe’s mutual hatred of the Swiss to good use by invading the country with a force of anywhere between 3‚000 and 5‚000 foot soldiers and cavalry. According to chronicler Johannes Vitoduranus‚ "The men of this army came together
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present King Leonidas of Sparta with two options: either have to sacrifice the well-being of Sparta or have it burn to the ground. With submission not being an option‚ Leonidas forms an army of 300 Spartan warriors to block the narrow passage of Thermopylae where Xerxes intends to reach Hellas. The 300 are accompanied by about 1‚000 Thespians and Akkadians who protect the flanks of the passage‚ and combined‚ the forces manage to slay tens of thousands of Persians and prevent their entry into Hellas
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multiplier in many battles; at the Battle of Marathon‚ Miltiades used the Vrana Valley to prevent a Persian march on Athens‚ at the Battle of Thermopylae‚ Leonidas used the narrow‚ Thermopylae pass to invalidate the Persian numbers‚ and at the Battle of Artemisium‚ Themistocles used the Artemisium Strait to aid in his battle against the Persian fleets. The best manipulation and use of terrain by the Greeks in the Greco-Persian War was at the Battle of Marathon. In the Battle of Marathon Miltiades
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Sardis and burned the city.The Battle of Marathon took place in 490 BC during the first Persian invasion of Greece. It was fought between the citizens of Athens‚ helped by Plataea‚ and a Persian force commanded by Datis and Artaphernes. The battle was the climax of the first attempt by Persia‚ under King Darius I‚ to subjugate Greece. The Greek army defeated the more numerous Persians‚ marking a turning point in the Greco-Persian Wars. The Battle of Thermopylae was fought between an alliance
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(of comic book fame). They are both based upon a one of the most famous battles in the Persian Wars (492 - 449 BC)‚ The Battle of Thermopylae. The Battle of Thermopylae goes down in history for being one of the most heroic feats of bravery in any war. The Spartan King Leonidas led 300 Spartan warriors in a fight to block the Persian Army from passing into Greece through a two meter wide pass through the mountains of Thermopylae. The Persian army that vastly outnumbered the Spartans was beat back
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Summary Gates of fire is a story about Xeones‚ a Greek boy who is a survivor of the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC. After awhile of living in his village it is over ran by Argives ‚ Xeones then wonders the countryside with two friends and spends his early years as an outlaw. Until one day he is captured enslaved by the Spartans ‚ where they keep him with the other slaves called Helots. He is then paired with Alexandros‚ the son of a high ranking Spartan officer‚ who
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Place- Greece 480 B.C. Event- Battle of Thermoplae. Concept- Xeones recounts his life leading up to the battle. Object- Greek city-states consisting of 300 Spartan Warriors‚ 400 Thebans‚ 700 Thespian Volunteers And around 900 Helots Fought The Persian Empire at the pass of Thermopylae. Reason For Choosing Book Prior to reading this novel I had some knowledge of the Battle of Thermopylae. I watched the movie 300last year and it is based on the battle of Thermopylae and the lifestyle of the Spartan
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Messenian War b. After the Messenian War 2. Training a. Age and Sex b. Way of life 3. Politics a. Women in Sparta b. Constitution c. Lycurgus 4. Significant Battles a. Battle of Marathon b. Battle of Thermopylae c. Battle of Plataea d. The Peloponnesian War 5. Sparta without a war a. Shortcomings b. Battle of Leuctra 6. Summary III. Conclusion The training regiments and social structure of the Spartans were geared towards building the strongest men and nation physically
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significant impact in the victory for the Greeks. Thucydides describes Themistocles as a man who showed an ‘unmistakable natural genius’. This natural genius was shown in the years preceding the Second Persian‚ after the defeat of the Persians at the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC. Themistocles realized the consistent threat of the Persians and that they would return a large and more formidable force. Therefore he proposed that the newly discovered silver at the Athenian silver mine at Laurium be spent
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Hellas in the Thermopylae passage. The size of this passage at the time was 12 meters wide. The great historian
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