The Persian Wars

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Across
  1. 1. Three hundred Spartans fight to the death to slow the advance of the mighty Persian army
  2. 4. Largest empire in the world in the 500's BC
  3. 5. East coast of Turkey
  4. 6. One of the first historians in Greece. Documented the events of the Persian Wars
  5. 9. King Xerxes built a bridge across this body of water so he could march an army towards Athens
  6. 11. City in Anatolia recaptured from the Persians by rebel Greeks
  7. 13. King of Persia during the First Persian War
  8. 14. Epic battle where an outnumbered Athenian army defeated the Persians by drawing them to the center and enveloping them
  9. 15. King of Persia during the Second Persian War
Down
  1. 2. Final battle of the Second Persian War, where a Greek hoplite army crushed the remainder of Xerxe's forces
  2. 3. Persian general left behind to run the army as Xerxes fled home
  3. 7. Themistocles soundly defeats the Persian navy, changing the tide of the Second Persian War
  4. 8. Peninsula upon which Athens is located
  5. 10. Close formation of hoplite soldiers
  6. 12. Greek soldier typically equipped with shield, spear, and sword