Persian Wars

4. the central figure in the story that inspired the marathon race
7. a Spartan king whose stand against the invading Persian army at the pass of Thermopylae in central Greece
8. in 490 BC during the first Persian invasion of Greece
9. Greek historian and geographer
10. fought in 480 BC between the Achaemenid Persian Empire under Xerxes I and an alliance of Greek city-states led by Sparta under Leonidas I
11. was an Iranian religious reformer who challenged the tenets of the contemporary Ancient Iranian religion
13. a naval battle fought in 480 BC, between an alliance of Greek city-states under Themistocles, and the Achaemenid Empire under King Xerxes
14. rectangular mass military formation

1. Athenian politician and general
2. Greek soldiers
3. is the creator of the universe and all the things in it, being at the same time wise and good
5. the founder of the Persian Achaemenid Empire
6. was a Persian ruler who served as the fourth King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire,
9. forms part of the continental boundary between Asia and Europe and separates Asian Turkey from European Turkey
12. a provincial governor in the ancient Persian empire