West. Civ.Mr. Lawrence

The Persian Wars

The largest Empire in the know world One of the Most powerful empires in HistoryWorshiped the King as God

The Persian Empire

Made of thousands of lightly armored, fast troops

Built for Desert WarfareMade of Veteran Troops

who had never lost a WarThe Immortals

The Kings Personnel Body Guard

Always numbered 10,000 men

The Persian Army

Small in number but extremely well trained

Iron weapons and ArmorSlow Moving built for mountain

fighting Fought in the Phalanx formation

which would become the most powerful fighting formation of the Ancient World

Greek Forces

Fought between Athens and Persia Over the Spread of the Persian

Empire into IoniaThe Persian King at this time

was Darius the Great The Athenians Defeated the

Persians land forces at the Battle of MarathonThe Persians greatly out

numbered the Greeks However the Phalanx and Iron

armor of the Greeks was to powerful for the Persian forces

The First Persian War

Lead by King Xerxes to conquer all of Greece

The Persians formed the Largest Army the world had ever seen and marched across the Hellespont into Greece

The Greeks United to face this threat

The Second Persian War

The First Major Battle was at Thermopylae (480 BCE)

The Persian Forces burnt Athens (480-479 BCE)

However, they land forces were defeated at the battle of Plataea (479 BCE)

The Persian Navy was destroyed at Salamis (480 BCE)

Timeline of War

The Greeks Glorified in their victory

The Athenians would gain in power and build an empire in Greece

Dawning of the Golden Age of Greece

The Persian Empire would lose much of its power and slowly begin to fall apart

The Consequences of the War