This document provides definitions for key terms and people related to the Persian Wars between the Persian Empire and Greek city-states between 499 and 479 BCE. It defines terms like cavalry, ally, Persian Empire, and battles like Marathon, Thermopylae, and Salamis. It identifies important figures like King Darius, King Xerxes, Themistocles, Miltiades, and King Leonidas and their roles in the conflicts.
30. The place, and narrow pass,
where the outnumbered Greeks
held off the Persians for three
days around 480 B.C.E. In the
end King Leonidas and 300 of his
men died holding them off.
34. This revolt began because the
Greeks didn’t like how the
Persians took their farmland and
harbors, or how they were forced
to serve in the Persian army.
36. In this battle the strategy was to
fight the Persians in a narrow
pass which would limit the
number of soldiers the Greeks
would have to fight at one time.
44. After the defeat at Salamis,
___________ fled with some of
his soldiers, leaving the rest in
Greece with orders to attack the
Greeks again in the spring.
