Greece

Today in class we are talking about Greece. This what we talked about and more:

Cyrus the Great:
Jump started the Persian empire
He found the first world empire

The Battle of Marathon:
Greeks outnumbered, against a better army, away from their homeland
 Greeks won
 They had a better strategy

Bridge of Hellespont:

Xerxes built a bridge which was destroyed by a storm so he had had the sea whipped to punish the Gods.

His bridge was ships tied together with wood over top that was a mile long instead of rowing in boats.

Smart so he could still keep the horses.

Leonidas:

Went through Sparta trying which was hard work.

Hero-king of Sparta

Peloponnese:

Almost an island by a little bit connected to Greece.

This is where Spartans lived.

Herodotus:

A reporter

A Greek historian

First person to organized this

Some of the stories Herodotus wrote were not completely true he told the people "He only wrote what he heard".

Greeks liked stories

He was known as the "Father of History"

He was born in Halicarnassus, Caria. Which is modern day Bodrum, Turkey.

He lived during 484 b.c. through 425 b.c.

 He was the first historian to collect materials systematically, and test for the accuracy and arrange them in well made and detailed.

 He was mostly known for his record of the "inquiry". It was an investigation of the Greco-Persian wars and it included the wealth of geographics and ethnographics (scientific meaning of human nature) information .

He made it a good story but he didn’t tell the truth.

(On a Google Docs power point)