Places - Persian Wars
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Naxos | Withstood the Persian siege in 499 |
| Caria | Joined the Ionians in revolt |
| Byzantium | Revolting city that controlled Bosphorus |
| Hellespont | Narrow straits separating Asia and Europe bridged by Xerxes |
| Sardis | Burned by the Greeks in the Ionian Revolt |
| Ephesus | Site of Greek defeat after attack on Sardis |
| Cyprus | Large island which revolted from Persia with the Ionians |
| Athens and Eretria | Sent help to the Ionians |
| Phoenicia | Now Lebanon, the source of Persia's best naval squadrons. |
| Thracian Chersonnese | Where Miltiades ruled before his flight to Athens |
| Lade | Site of Ionian naval defeat |
| Miletus | Great Ionian city destroyed by the Persians |
| Lesbos, Chios and Naxos | The big islands of the eastern Aegean |
| Thasos | Rich island in northern Aegean which gave 'Earth and Water' in 492 |
| Thrace | semi-barbaric mainland of northern Aegean |
| Strymon | Large river in western Thrace bridged by Xerxes |
| Athos | The peninsular which featured shipwrecks and then a canal |
| Macedonia | Greek northern kingdom gave earth and water in 492 |
| Laurium | The site of the silver mines of Athens |
| Delphi | The site of the Delphic oracle |
| Delos | Holy island of the Ionians |
| Carystus | City on the southern tip of Euboea |
| Euboea | Long island off the northern coast of Attica and Boeotia |
| Plataea | Small Boeotian city allied to Athens |
| Tempe | Where Euanetas attempted to block the Persian advance into Thessally |
| Artemesium | Site of 3 day naval battle on north coast of Euboea |
| Euripus | Narrow channel separating Euboea from Boeotia and Attica |
| Thermopylae | The pass guarding central Greece defended by Leonidas |
| The Hollows | Dangerous stretch of Euboean coast where Persian naval squadron was destroyed by a storm |
| Magnesia | Mainland north of Euboea where a third of the Persian fleet was lost to storm damage |
| Thespiae | Small Boeotian polis whose 700 men died at Thermopylae |
| Thebes | Greatest of the Boeotian poleis which Medized after Thermopylae |
| Acropolis | The high temple precinct of Athens defended by a wooden wall |
| Troezen | Peloponnesian city which received Athenian refugees - Themistocles' Decree found there |
| Aegina | Island polis in the Saronic Gulf hated by Athens |
| Salamis | 'will bring death to women's sons when the corn is scattered of the harvest gathered in' |
| Isthmus of Corinth | The site of the wall defending the Peloponnese |
| Mycale | Ionian beach where the remnants of the Persian fleet were destroyed in 479 |
| Asopus | The battle of Plataea was fought in the region of this river and its tributaries |
| Cyclades | Datis and Artaphernes received 'Earth and Water' from these islands in 490 |
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