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Why did the Greeks choose Thermopylae as the place to oppose the Persians?
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To force a sea battle in the narrow strait adjacent. The object was to destroy the Persan flet which threatened the Grek cities, and also protected the Persian supply fleet.
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Why did the Greeks choose Thermopylae as a place to oppose the Persians?
The Greeks had to eliminate the Persian naval threat to their city-states in order for their armies could leave off defending them and unite to face the Persian army. They blocked the pass of Thermopylae to force the Persians to attempt to turn it by sea. The Greek fleet waited in the nearby channel to pounce. Unfortunately for them they lost the sea battle and the force of 7,000 holding Thermopylae was withdrawn. The Spartan and Thespian contingents stayed behind to cover the withdrawal and were killed. The Greeks tried again a Salamis and were succful, and their armies united the following summer to defeat the Persian army at Plataea.
Why did the Greeks choose Thermopylae as the place to oppose the Perseans?
There was a narrow pass leading to southern Greece. By blocking it, they hoped to force a sea battle in the adjacent strait and defeat the Persian fleet and so remove the sea threat to their cities. the sea battle failed, and the blocking force vacated the pass.
Why did the Greeks choose Thermopylae at the place to oppose the Persians?
It was a narrow pass and easy to block with a small force. The Greek plan was to force the Persians to try to outflank the holdup in the pass by sea, and the Greek navies were waiting in the nearby strait to pounce, needing a sea victory to remove the Persian amphibious threat to their cities and allow their main armies defending their cities to come out and join up for a real land battle. The sea battles went on for three days and the Greek fleet lost and withdrew. The blocking force, its mission now gone, also withdrew, with the Spartans and Thespians remaining behind to cover the withdrawal and being overwhelmed and destroyed.
Why were the Greeks able to unite during the Persian War?
Much of the credit goes to the Greek navy which won the majority of sea-land battles, which kept the Persians on the defensive and brought them to agree to a peace after 50 years of fighting.
What is the name of the giant born to oppose the greek god poseiden?
The only one of the Gigantes that I know of to oppose Poseidon directly was Athos, but I don't know that he was "born" to.
Why did the Greeks choose Thermopylae as a place to oppose the Persians?
The Greeks had to eliminate the Persian naval threat to their city-states in order for their armies could leave off defending them and unite to face the Persian army. They blocked the pass of Thermopylae to force the Persians to attempt to turn it by sea. The Greek fleet waited in the nearby channel to pounce. Unfortunately for them they lost the sea battle and the force of 7,000 holding Thermopylae was withdrawn. The Spartan and Thespian contingents stayed behind to cover the withdrawal and were killed. The Greeks tried again a Salamis and were succful, and their armies united the following summer to defeat the Persian army at Plataea.
Why did the Greeks choose Thermopylae as the place to oppose the Perseans?
There was a narrow pass leading to southern Greece. By blocking it, they hoped to force a sea battle in the adjacent strait and defeat the Persian fleet and so remove the sea threat to their cities. the sea battle failed, and the blocking force vacated the pass.
Why did the Greeks choose Thermopylae at the place to oppose the Persians?
It was a narrow pass and easy to block with a small force. The Greek plan was to force the Persians to try to outflank the holdup in the pass by sea, and the Greek navies were waiting in the nearby strait to pounce, needing a sea victory to remove the Persian amphibious threat to their cities and allow their main armies defending their cities to come out and join up for a real land battle. The sea battles went on for three days and the Greek fleet lost and withdrew. The blocking force, its mission now gone, also withdrew, with the Spartans and Thespians remaining behind to cover the withdrawal and being overwhelmed and destroyed.
What were the long term effects of the Battle of Thermopylae?
It was a ploy to force a sea battle in the adjacent strait. The Greeks lost the sea battle, and most of the Greek land forces withdrew. As a failed military venture, it had no long term effects whatsoever other than to provide a basis for modern romantic tales of the last stand of the 300 Spartans.
What was the role of the city states in the Persian wars?
The southern ones banded together to oppose the invasion. The ones in central Greece joined the Persians.
How did the Persian Wars affect city-states?
They temporarily banded together to oppose the Persians, and when the Persians finally agreed to stay out of Greece, the cities went back to their usual fighting each other with devastating effect, until Macedonia took them under control.
Why did the Persians oppose their rulers policy of selling business concessions to europeans?
The Persian people did not want their rulers giving away their business or helping another country instead of helping them.
How did the Persian War help bring the Greeks together?
The Persian invasion of mainland Greece caused a pause in the usual fighting between the Greek city-states. Some of the northern cities joined with Persia, while the southern ones banded together to oppose the invasion. When the invasion was turned back and Persia eventually agreed to stay away from the Greek cities, they went back to their usual business of fighting each other until Macedonia brought them under control. At the Battle of Thermopylae, this was proven when over 7,000 Greek hoplites, led by King Leonidas of Sparta and 300 Spartans, defended the tiny pass from an invasion force of what might have been over 3,000,000 Persian troops, led by King Xerxes. The Persians might've not have as many casualties as it did if its navy could get past one obstacle: the Athenian Navy, led by Themistocles. Even though the rest of the Greeks retreated, the Spartans held their ground with about 1,000 other Thespians against the Persian ground troops. They were surrounded, and ultimately defeated. But this battle showed that all Greeks could fight together as not a bunch of city-states, but one whole country instead.
Why did the Persians war strenghth the Greeks?
It both strengthened and weakened them. They had banded together to oppose the Persian Empire, and Athens opportunistically converted this into and empire of its own when peace was made with Persia. So Athens had a strong bloc, but overstepped itself against the Peloponneian League led by Sparta and brought on a devastating 27-year war which wealened the Greek world and opened the way for Macedonian dominance.
What was Sparta like after the battle of Thermopylae?
It was prepared for war to defend itself and contribute to and lead the Greek effort by sea and land to oppose the Persian invasion. Thermopylae was a holding operation to force a sea battle in the hope of destroying the Persian navy which threatened the Greek cities. The failure of this plan led to a subsequent sea battle at Salamis which succeeded. Sparta then led the coup de grace in the land battle at Plataia.
Why do Greeks oppose the new austerity measures?
Because it is putting the failures of banking greed on the shoulders of working people. Let it crash, start from scratch. Down with the global bankers.
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