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- Battle of Marathon
- Battle of Salamis
- Battle of Thermopylae
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- At the Battle of Marathon, Athens' underdog victory stunned Persia. Pheiddipides ran to warn them then dropped dead,The surprise defeat of the mighty Persian Empire in 490 B.C. began the Golden Age of Athens and the Greco-Persian wars. A well-armed Greek hoplite (right) slays a Persian soldier in a detailBattle of Plateau
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- In 480 BCE, the Greeks defeated the Persian fleet off the island of Salamis in the largest naval battle ever fought in the ancient world. The Greek victory proved to be the turning point in the war, for the Persian king, Xerxes, returned to Asia with his surviving ships and the majority of his land troops.
- Causes of the War
- At the battle of thermopylae King Leonidas gave a speech but died during the trip to fight.
- Effects of the War
- The Battle of Plataea was the final land battle during the second Persian invasion of Greece. It was a decisive victory for the Greeks as it ended that war. The battle was in 479 BC near the city of Plataea in Boeotia.
- This policy was exploited by two unscrupulous tyrants. Histiaeus, tyrant of Miletus, had been detained at Susa.
- Persia loses control over Thrace, the Aegean sea and the western coast of Asia Minor. Greek expeditionary force defeated and repelled from Egypt.
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