To what extent was Themistocles responsible for the Greek victory in the Persian wars in 480-479BC? Themistocles was a prominent figure within the Greek battles against the Persians during the periods of 480-479 BC. Themistocles had a major influence in the battles at Artemisium‚ Salamis‚ Plataea and Mycale which lead to the Greek victory in the war. Through his unique contributions to the battles‚ Themistocles had greatly impacted on these victories some majorly others to a small extent‚ achieved
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CP Western Civilization Chapter 4 Sections 1-3 Minoan Civilization: lived on Crete; after king Minos; earliest civilization; based on trade not conquest; used art to reflect them; used others cultures and customs Polis: a city-state; political Oligarchy: rule by some people Acropolis: high city; city built high up on a cliff for defense purposes City-State: independent; own government; isolated; doesn’t answer to anyone Crete: island off the coast of Greece that was the cradle of an early
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Every male Spartan had to pass through the Spartan education system - the agoge. This began at the age of seven and was completed at by the age of thirty when the Spartan would become a full Spartiate and receive the right to vote. The fact that a Spartan spent so much of his life in the agoge meant that there was a long time for the state imposed system to force him to have the same views. Plutarch tells us that the particularly intelligent young men in the agoge were chosen to be part of the
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To what extent was Themistocles’ contribution the key factor in bringing about a Greek victory in the Persian Wars‚ 480-479 BC? To a very large extent Themistocles did play the key role in bringing about a Greek victory against the Persians in 480-479BC. His efforts in the pre-war years‚ his leadership and tactical skills at Artemisium and Salamis‚ and his persuasive arguments all combined to offer the Greeks hope of victory. However‚ Themistocles‚ alone‚ could not determine the fate of the war
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Cyrus the great who was the Emperor of Persian at the time invaded Greece and conquered a wealth Greek settlement called Ionia in 546 B.C.E. The smaller Greek city-states had much less land and far fewer people than Persia. The Persians took their farm land and forced the Ionians to pay the Persians a tax and serve in the Persian army. The Greeks there were encouraged to rebel by the Greeks and Athens. In the 490’s B.C.E‚ Darius who was the son of Cyrus the great‚ decided to invade the Athens as
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women’s fascinating lives‚ the great leader Leonidas‚ and the marriage customs. The Spartan military was the only way of life for most of the Sparta people. A lot of great Spartan battles happened in their history. Their actions at the battle of Thermopylae in particular have a place in the modern culture and it is perhaps the most famous last stand in history.
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Family Background and status Xerxes was born a royal prince and would have had all the respect and prestige associated with his status. He was not the eldest son of King Darius I. Darius had three sons by another wife whilst he was still but a lord. For Darius to strengthen his calm to the Persian throne‚ Darius married Atossa ‚ the daughter of Cyrus the Great. Xerxes was the eldest son of this union. This made Xerxes the son of the king‚ grandson of the founder of the empire and the son with the
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and a passion for defending their country. In the novel‚ Gates of Fire‚ author Steven Pressfield shows an unseen viewpoint of the Battle of Thermopylae. In this novel we see the Spartan army‚ unlike any other of its time‚ leading a prime example in strength in individual characters‚ heavy training and passion for their profession. In the Battle of Thermopylae‚ Leonidas leads roughly 300 men into a small passage to defend their land from the intruding Persian army. Those soldiers knew from the start
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Steven Pressfield’s The Gates of Fire is set in the fifth century B.C. in Greece. The story revolves around the famous battle of Thermopylae where three hundred Spartans held off hundreds of thousands of Persians‚ saving Greece. Pressfield creates a fictional story around the battle where one man‚ a squire named Xeones‚ survives to tell the Spartan story of the battle and the events preceding it. Xeones‚ who is the protagonist‚ tells his life story to the royal Persian historian while in captivity
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Michael Beers History 106-01 Mr. Horlor July 12‚ 2013 The Life and Works of Herodotus and Sima Qian A Research-Based Commentary Thesis In the book Herodotus and Sima Qian (2010)‚ Thomas R. Martin contests of the Greek Historian and the Chinese Historian Sima Qian. Martin displays that though the historians’ politics‚ cultures‚ and time periods were different‚ both historians had the innate desire to record their subjective view of history as objectively as possible. Though they were not
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