ANCS 1006 Q1 Decisive Battles Thermopylae PDF

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Decisive Battles: Thermopylae https://youtu.be/8M4w-82iVXs To answer these questions, either select the green line and type your answer (which  pload will be green), or else print the pages and write down your answers. Pleaseu the completed questionnaire in the “Dropbox” for this course. Deadline: Wednesday O  ctober 14th 2020. 1– At 1:12 into the video, they show a map. One of the three city-states is slightly misplaced (slightly ─ though strategically it does matter much). Based on your textbook maps, can you say which one? Athens Is  fine. Corinth Is  placed north of the Corinth Canal rather than south of it, making Corinth closer to Athens. Sparta Is  fine. 2– What was Xerxes’ main aim? To expand Persia into Europe using Greece as the gateway.  3– Thermopylae means hot gates. 4– How many men on the Greek side? 7000 How many Spartans? 300  5– How many Spartan citizens altogether? 9000 6– Who is the Spartan commander? Leonidas  7– What’s the Spartans main weapon? Thrusting  Spear 8– The Medes were what kind of soldiers? Archers  9– What was the elite Persian formation called? Ten  Thousand Immortals

10– What was the Greek formation called? Phalanx Formation 11– On the Greek side, how many men deep and across? 16 X 64  12– The Greeks’ shields were … 3 ft in diameter, bronze-faced,  with maybe 2 inches of oak underneath. 13– What’s a xiphos? A  short sword for close combat by the Spartans. 14– What army was advantaged by the topography, and why? The  Persians got the advantage of the hills due to the Greeks only being able to see a few thousand of the Persians, not the full army. 15– What was the cowards’ weapon, according to the Spartans? The  bow and arrow due to it being able to kill from a distance rather than up close. 16– Who was Ephialtes? A  Greek traitor looking to get rich quick. He went to Xerxes and told him about a pathway around the mountainside to outflank the Spartans. His name now means “Nightmare” in modern Greek language. 17– How many Persians were lost? 10000  18– After his victory, what was Xerxes’ next objective? To  capture Athens by going through Thermopylae, however the citizens and army already fled the city-state....