1. 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

2. 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?

3. Please look at the back of page 17 in your notebook for our first activity today Lions Strengths Weaknesses Wildcats Strengths Weaknesses

4. The Persian Wars

5. 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!!!

6. Darius King of the Persians 522-486 B.C.E. Politician Military leader

7. Persian Army The Ten Thousand Immortals So many if one died they were simply replaced by the next man

8. Why was the Persian Army so strong? Large size Good Training Calvary-men on horseback Excellent archers

9. Why did Darius want control of the city-states in Asia Minor? Gain control of trade routes Obtain more resources

10. 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

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

12. The Persians take over Ionia… Puppet Government

13. Which Greek City-States Helped Ionia?

14. Which City-state did not help? Sparta-they said it was too far to march

15. The Persian Became very upset with___________. Athens

16. Battle!!!!!

17. 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

18. 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?

19. Battle of Marathon

20. Why did Darius and the Persian invade Mainland Greece? To prevent further rebellions, such as the Ionian Revolt

21. Battle Statistics Greeks 9,000 troops Persians 20,000 troops 200 ships

22. Battle of Marathon

23. What were the Spartans doing??? They had a religious festival going on so they didn’t come and help

24. 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!

25. Pheidippides “Marathon” runner/Athenian messenger Runs from Marathon to Athens ~26 miles and tells the news of victory- “NIKE”

26. Lights Camera Action!!!!

27. Thermopylae

28. Battle of Thermopylae

29. Xerxes Son of Darius Persian leader at Thermopylae

30. Persian Forces-March to Greece 600 ships 250,000 men HellespontBridge of boats

31. Athenian Navy Prevent reinforcements to the Persian army from Asia Minor

32. Leonidas King of Spartan forces at Thermopylae

33. Geography of Thermopylae The Spartans defended a small, narrow mountain pass

34. How were the Persians successful? A Greek Traitor showed the Persians another way around the mountain pass

35. 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!!!!

36. Lights Camera Action!!!

37. 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

38. 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?

39. Battle of Salamis

40. The Athenians fled to the island of Salamis

41. Themistocles Athenian general-fights the Persians in a naval battle

42. Send a false message about Themistocles being a traitor

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

44. Lights Camera Action!!!

45. Plataea Xerxes leaves Greece His army stays behind and moves towards Athens once again!!

46. Plataea Athenians and Spartans joined forces to defeat the Persians once and for all!

47. Lights Camera Action!!!!

48. Battle!!!!

49. Review Location Order of the 3 Battles Geography Victor Why/How they won???

50. 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??????