The Greco-Persian War

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  1. 2. The king of Persia at the time of the Battle of Thermopylae
  2. 5. A battle in which Athenians led by Miltiades surrounded the Persians on three sides
  3. 7. An Athenian navy leader who tricked the Persians in the Battle of Salamis
  4. 8. The city-state that the Persians burned after the Battle of Thermopylae
  5. 9. The final battle of the Greco-Persian War
  6. 10. A term for political friendships
  7. 11. The Persians learned how to attack the Greeks from behind because of only one Greek...
  8. 13. A Greek military formation of spears and overlapping shields
  9. 17. Particularly important when deciding where to fight in order to win
  10. 18. The number of days the Spartans and their allies fought against the Persians
  11. 20. Messengers sent from Persia demanded tributes of these from the city-states in Greece
  12. 22. Name of a vast empire in Asia and Europe
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  1. 1. The leader of the Spartan forces at the Battle of Thermopylae
  2. 3. The name of the type of warship used by Greeks and Persians
  3. 4. The plan a general develops before fighting
  4. 6. The place where the Persians created floating bridges to cross into Greece
  5. 12. The battle that was fought mostly on the Aegean Sea using boats
  6. 14. King of the Persian Empire at the beginning of the Persian War
  7. 15. Two city-states that allied together to fight a common enemy
  8. 16. This happened before the Greco-Persian War and made the Persians want to attack Athens
  9. 19. Themistocles pretended to have his boats __ towards Athens, drawing the Persians closer
  10. 21. According to legend,Pheidippides ran 26.2 miles to Athens to shout this