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What was the name of the narrow pass where 9000 Greeks clashed with 150000 Persians?
The pass of Thermopylae.
Where did the Spartans meet the Persians?
Thermopylae, as part of a force of 7,000 Greeks blocking the pass.
Who attacked Thermopylae first?
The Greeks defended, the Persians attacked to get through the pass into southern Greece.
What is the mountain pass that is the site of the heroic battle between the Greeks and Persians and ancient history and the movie 300?
The Pass of Thermopylae.
What did the Persians do after the battle at Thermopylae?
After defeating the doomed Spartan/Greek rear guard led by the Spartan king Leonidas at the narrow pass of Thermopylae the Persians went on to raid the Greek countryside and burned the Greek City-State of Athens . Afterwards , the Persians returned home .
Where were Greek forces able to hold the Persians off for two days?
The pass at Thermopylae in 480 BCE.
How many Persians were in the Thermopylae war?
There was no Thermopylai war. It was a holding action in which 7,000 forces from the southern Greek city-states held the pass for three days. The persian force was 180,000 strong but in the narrow pass comparatively few were fighting at any stage.
How might Persia Wars have ended if the Spartans had not slowed the Persians at Thermopylae?
Holding the pass at Thermopylae was used to force a naval battle. The Greeks lost the naval battle, so it was to no avail or effect.
Where was the pass at in which 300 Spartans died?
The narrow coastal pass of Thermopylae . August or September 480 BC
What was the battle names of Sparta and Athens when Sparta sent olny 300 men?
Thermopylae is the pass where the Spartans fought the Persians. The Athenians simultaneously fought the Persians in the battle of Salamis (a naval battle)
How did the battle of thermopylae help Athens even though they lost?
Athens was not involved in the delaying action at Thermopylae Pass. Its manpower was fully occupied manning its fleet as part of the southern Greek fleet at the battle of Artemisia Holding the Pass at Thermopylae was designed to force the Persians to try to outflank the bottleneck by sea, and the Greek fleet was waiting to pounce. The Greeks lost the sea battle and the Thermopylae force, its mission no longer relevant, was withdrawn. This exposed Athens to the advancing Persian army. They evacuated the city and it was occupied by the Persians. So Athens was not helped by Thermopylae.
Who were the main combatants in the battle of Thermopylae?
The Trojan War took place in Greek Mythology during a time period where countries as they are known today did not exist. The war was fought between the city of Troy and the Achaens, who formed a collective of Greek city states. The city of Troy would have been located in modern-day Turkey.
