AP World History Discussion Flashcards

8402669377	The Greco Persian War.......	is a series of wars fought by the greek city states and Persians, they lasted around a century	0
8402703365	Started in 500 bc......	When the Greek city states rebelled against the Persians	1
8402716998	the uprising is known as..	the ionian revolt	2
8402722969	the revolt led to...	the overthrow of darius, and his power in Russia	3
8402738253	the ionian cities...	were helped half-heartly by Athens	4
8402750309	during the revolt...	Darius and his army invaded Greece, which caused the war between Greece and Persia (the Greco-persian war)	5
8402768500	the first Persian invasion was...	the battle at marathon (BAM)	6
8402778346	Athens had _________ guys, Persian army had __________________	10,000 15,000	7
8402792709	___________ had the victory at the BAM	greeks after a surprise attack	8
8402804920	greeks lost	a lot less men than the Persians did (192 vs 6,400)	9
8402817925	after the defeat at marathon	the Persians went home and returned 10 yrs. later w/ more men (led by Xerxes)	10
8402836388	greeks formed	a league against Persia	11
8402840832	the battle was	3 days long	12
8402849360	Persian ships	attempted to attack the greeks, but a tremendous storm came through and destroyed a large portion of their fleet, the greeks watched safely from port	13
8402874255	the next two days	the Persians (at themolpae) attacked Greeks but suffered heavy loses.	14
8402890336	2nd night	a greek traitor showed the Persians where the greeks were, they fled south where most fought until there death	15
8402912681	a large majority of the Persians	stayed in Greece to continue fighting for the next few years	16
8402921742	this ended	with a treaty in 449 BC, it was called the Peace of Callias	17