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| What did a slave whisper to king Darius before every meal? |
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| Sire, remember the AThenians |
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| What formation did Greeks fight in? |
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| Persians fought from a distance using...? |
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| Persians fought with speed using soldiers on horseback or...? |
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| Why didn't the Spartans fight at Marathon? |
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| had to wait for a full moon before battle |
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| What allowed the Athenians to build triremes? |
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| "lucky"find of silver mines |
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| How did Xerxes "walk" across water? |
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| strung together old ships |
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| How many Persians fought at Thermopylae? How many Greeks? |
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| How did the Persians surround the Greeks at Thermopylae? |
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| a spy told the Persians about a goat path to get behind the Greeks |
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| Who led Greek naval forces in the Persian Wars? |
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| The 300 Spartans sacrificed themselves so that... |
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| Athens could be evacuated |
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| Who fought in the Peloponnesian War? |
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| Athens and Delian League v Sparta and Peloponnesian League |
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| What caused the Peloponnesian War? |
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| Athens being a bully and taking $$ from city-states |
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| What was the Athenian plan for the Peloponnesian War? |
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| crowd everyone behind walls of Athens and use the Long Walls to get supplies |
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| Why did the AThenian plan fail? |
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| plague broke out killing 1/3 of the population |
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| What was the turning point in the Peloponnesian War? |
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| Sparta getting Athenian silver mines and 20,000 slaves |
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