The Persian Wars

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Across
  1. 3. There was a land battle here in 479
  2. 4. There was a sea battle here in 479
  3. 5. The poet to whom the epitaph composed for the Thermopylae dead is attributed
  4. 10. Darius invaded Greece to punish Athens for their involvement in the ________
  5. 12. The historian whose work chronicles the Persian Wars
  6. 13. The Athenian general at Marathon
  7. 15. A Spartan warrior was expected to come back with his ________ or on it
  8. 16. The Athenian who helped lead Darius to Marathon
  9. 17. The Athenians lost 192 men in this battle, while the Persians lost 6,400
Down
  1. 1. The ________ League was founded in 477 BC to get revenge against and contain Persia
  2. 2. Xerxes crossed this by binding ships together
  3. 6. After their victory at Thermopylae, the Persians went to Athens and burned this
  4. 7. Persian king who reorganized the empire, ruling from 522-486 BC
  5. 8. Pericles was the ________ for Aeschylus' Persians
  6. 9. The son of Darius
  7. 11. The battle site whose name means “hot gates”
  8. 14. This is an island near Athens where a battle took place in 480 BC