HOMEWORK 2.

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Quiz on Friday Chapter 28 Current Events – Due Tomorrow #30 Handouts

DO NOW: FILL OUT ROW 5 ON YOUR SCALE

THE EVACUATION OF ATHENS

 2 months after the death of King Leonidas and the Spartans at Thermopylae, Themistocles, the leader of the Athenian Navy orders the city to be evacuated  The people of Athens boarded ships and sailed for nearby islands while very few remained in the city  Xerxes finally succeeds and burns Athens to the ground

THEMISTOCLES GETS TRICKY

 Themistocles believes that he can defeat the Persians if he is able to lure them into the narrow channels of water at Salamis in order to reduce the number of Persian ships attacking at once  He sends a servant to Xerxes posing as a traitor telling him that if the Persians attack right now, half of the Greeks would immediately surrender

THE BATTLE OF SALAMIS

 Xerxes takes the bait and sends in the Persian navy into the narrow channels of Salamis  The Greeks seemed to retreat at first, but once the Persians were completely in the channels, the Greeks surrounded them  At a cost of 40 Greek ships, the Greeks are able to destroy 300 Persian ships  This was the second major victory for the Greeks in the Persian War