Battle of Thermopylae
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- Created on: 19-06-18 17:22
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- Battle of Thermopylae
- Why did the Greeks chose to fight there?
- Hellenic League formed to resist
- archaeological evidence-serpent column
- Spartan code
- geography- narrow=few greeks can hold ersians superior numbers
- 'greece was saved by Athens'
- 'win or die'
- 'not be able to use their superiority in numbers or cavalry'
- Hellenic League formed to resist
- Why were there so few Greeks and Spartans present?
- ' intention that the sight of them might encourage the other allies to join'
- 'Leonidas voted to stay'
- 'it happened to be the time of the olympic games'
- 'festival of Carnea'
- '300 spartiates'
- Why did Leonidas succeed for 2 days?
- Xerxes found the Spartan preparation 'laughable'
- 'experts against amateurs'
- 'spears shorter than greeks'
- 'three times he jumped out of his seat in fear for his army'
- 'finest kingdom in Greece and the best men'
- What happened in day 3?
- Ephialtes betrays the Greeks by revealing the mountain path
- Spartans came out to 'fight to the death'
- Persians won the battle with a conscript army
- 'gave no thought to their own survival'
- 'trampled by their own men'
- Why did the Greeks chose to fight there?
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