CLASSIC 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Themistocles, Tyrant, Mardonius
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The greeks define themselves (the persians and their wars) Flashback: croesus an cyrus the great 559-530 bc. The persians choose to have a monarchy. In relief it shows ppl blowing kisses at him to show they are submissive to him. Ppl of miletus want to revolt/ they ask spartans for help but they pass. Ppl also want to establish democrasies so they go to athens for help. Miletus is made an example of and destroyed. Greeks learn more about persians each other. Massive shipwreck near mt. athos; for persians. They loose around 300 ships and about 20,000 ppl. They go home and need to regroup. Many medize by giving earth and water : paid taxes and gave soldiers, most famously, thebes who just gave up and joined persians. Persians have client states in northern greece. Persians still haven"t finished w/ athens and eretria.
