GRK 142 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Ionian Revolt, Northern Greece, Anatolia
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Cyrus is the first leader: conquers media in 550, 547 conquers cilicia, makes persia into an empire instead of just a country. Ionian asks other greeks for their help and the athenians answer along with a few other minor cities. 494 greeks take control of sardis (western capital city) but then. Xerxes invasion of 480: brings land army and fleet. Claim that they had 1. 6 million men but it is more likely that there were only several hundred thousand warriors. 200 ships: go through thermopylae which is a thin area between two mountains. A group of greeks (mostly spartans) are there to meet them and hold them off for as long as possible so the rest of greece has time to prepare for the larger parts of the war. Three day battle and the first two days go very well for the greeks. There are lots of persian casualties until ephialtes betrays sparta.
