Themisticles

• realized that the persians might still be an enemy
• trireme- state of the art ship. stacking 170 oars on three levels
• light weight
• free power
• good manuverable
• would ram other ships with the point of the boat
• go as afast as they could go and ram into another one
• most advanced weapon
• take out another ship with 100s of people on it
• exspensive

Xerxes

• wants to burn athens
• began to gather his forces
• from everywhere
• 2 million man army
• set out for greece 480 bc
• "drank rivers dry"
• ravaging the land as they marched towards greece
• xerxes was confident
• greeks asked the oracle what was going to happen
• oracle of delphi
• built around a casam
• would go to discover their futurE
• GREEKS WIN.

Salamis

• fight in straight of salamis

Delian League

• had more than 200 things
• werent about conquering
• athens is in charge
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