Directions: Please read about the Persian Wars on pages 118 to 119 in the Ancient World History
book and answer the following in complete sentences.
1. Who fought in the Persian wars?
2. Where did the Persian Wars begin?
3. In 520 B.C where did Persians conquer and who had been living there?
4. What happened when the Ionian Greeks revolted?
5. How many men did the Persian fleet carry across the Aegean Sea?
6. Describe in several sentences what happened at the Battle of Marathon?
7. What were the causalities like? Were you surprised by the numbers? Why?
8. Describe the story of Pheidippides. How did his mission help the Greeks?
9. Who was the successor of King Darius?
10. What were the different opinions of the Greeks as Xerxes planned to attack Athens for the second time
10 years after the battle of marathon?
11. Describe in several sentences what happened at Thermopylae?
12. What happened to the Spartans who were defending the pass while other Greek forces retreated?
13. In the battle of Salamis, what allowed Greeks to sink many Persian warships?
14. After the Persians were defeated, all the Greek City – states felt a new sense of ____________________
and _________________.
15. What is the Delian League?