Ancient Wars

agamemnon

They lost one of their two kings and his bodyguard.

They kept their army home defending their city.

They agreed to continue the Greek strategy of trying to defeat the Persian fleet so that the southern Greek cities would not have to remain at home defending thier cities against threatened Persian amphibious attack, and could concentrate against the persian army, which they did the following year.

As the sea battle at Artemesion which was precipitated by the holding of the pass at Thermopylai failed, there was little result from Thermopylai other than good propaganda after the war.

False.

Yes/No questions are bad ones as you often don't learn anything from them, and they often give you the wrong result. Tell your teacher that. The real answer is:

Whilst the Salamis battle was pivotal in ending Persian dominance in Greece, it took two more battles the following year to destroy the Persian forces - Platia and Mykale. Unless they had won those battles, the Greeks would have lost overall.

Phillip II

True, but Alexander and his father were not the first or the only people to use the phalanx. Most Hellenistic (Greek) civilizations employed the phalanx formation among their troops.

Carthage developed trade and navigation especially by sea. It is not exactly known how far their ships traveled outside the Mediterranean sea because they kept it a strict secret. Carthage was founded around 800 BC by the city of Tyre, and the Carthaginians also founded other cities.

Carthage is a common city. Some of examples of Carthage are: Cartage, MO and Carthage, IL.

The Ionian rebellion brought in support from mainland Greek city-states Eretria and Athens. After suppressing the revolt, Persia sent an expedition to capture those two city-states and put them under control of local tyrants to stop them causing trouble within the Persian Empire. This expedition was defeated, so the Persians decided that the only way to end Greek revolts was to bring all the mainland city-states under a Persian governor. They mounted a full-scale invasion by land and sea.

The southern Greek cities were thus under threat of a sea invasion, and had to keep their armies at home to protect their cities. They decided that their solution was to destroy the Persian navy, so they could then bring their armies out to unite and defeat the Persian army. They set up a blocking force at the pass of Thermopylae to force the Persians to turn the position by sea, and the Greek navies were waiting in the nearby strait of Artemesion to pounce on the Persian fleet.

Unfortunately for the Greeks, their fleet lost the sea battle, and with the blocking force at Thermopylae of no further use, it was withdrawn. The Spartan and Thespian elements of that force remained in place to cover the withdrawal, and were lost.

The Greeks tried again at Salamis and succeeded in destroying the Persian fleet, hen were able to assemble their armies the following year at Plataea, and won, so the invasion was defeated.

Rome's method of governing the provinces it took over was to leave the existing administration in place and set up a provincial governor to keep the peace and collect taxes.

In their approach to Hellenistic culture, the Roman aristocracy was divided between the traditional stoic Roman approach and the phil-hellenes - those who admired/accepted Greek culture. Not that this meant any softness towards Greeks themselves, whom they regarded as easy-beats and inferiors. But they progressively enriched their own culture from the Greek model.

With the decline and extinction of the western part of the empire under barbarian pressure, the easterm empire survived for a millennium as Romans, but speaking and culturally Greek.

The battle of Troy took place in the city of Troy. The battle began outside of the cities walls, however the Greeks were able to sneak into the city by hiding in large wooden horse.

It caused disastrous losses to the Greek world from Sicily to Asia Minor, and so weakened the cities that it enabled the eventual dominance of Macedonia.

Firstly, Carthage was a very successful trading empire and with this wealth could afford to hire effective mercenary forces. In the First Punic War, Carthage had a strong navy - Rome was a land power, and were on the losing end until they developed from scratch a powerful fleet and better naval tactics. In the Second Punic war they had a superior strategist and tactician in Hannibal. Not only was he able to defeat Romconsistently in battles, he was able to play on Rome's reliance on its allies to provide the manpower to replace its losses, by detaching or neutralising those allies. This lasted for fifteen years until Rome produced the superior strategy of invading Africa and threatening Carthage, resulting in Hannibal's recall to protect the city. In the Third Punic War, they had nothing, being completely on the defensive and without the necessary resources.

medieval people

This is a device to throw a projectile a great distance, the word comes from Latin Catapulta, which in turn come from the Greek language. The mechanism comes from Greece, about the lst Century BC

The Persians were not defeated by anyone in 499 BCE.

In culture (theatre, sculpture, buildings), language (new words in the English language are usually derivitives of Greek words, particulary in science - originally Latin was used but it lacked the scope required), religion (Christianity was spread initially in the Greek world), politics (modern politics is based on Greek models - monarchy, oligarchy and democracy).

The Auvergne region of France .

He captured Athens and looted the city in 480-479 BCE.

The 10,000 Immortals as its core, and, most importantly, the cavalry.

The difference is that they were in a war, of couse one lost and one won. Can you guess which one lost?

a. Spartas

b. Athens

If you said Athens, you are correct. The athens ruled for many years. Then Sparta came and kicked their butts in the war!

AncientGreekGirl :)

Yes, they often fought against each other in disputes over land and water rights. However the absorption of the area into successively the Assyrian, Persian, Macedonian and Parthian empires meant that the wars they were involved in were directed by the emperor of the time.

Use a translation dictionary.

Scipio Africanus.

Day 1 - the initial engagement at the pass, and naval skirmishing in the nearby strait of Artemesion.

Day 2 - further fighting, and a naval battle at Artemesion.

Day 3 - withdrawal of the other Greek land contingents and navy, and a last stand by the Spartan contingent to let the other land contingents escape.

What year are you talking about.

Japan was not a unified country in its early days. There were multiple kingdoms whose enemies were the other kingdoms.