Crucible of Civilization notes 3

• Themisticles got to be the general in the navy
• Trireme is a battleship the everyone rowed 
• it is used to ram another ship
• narrow and quick
• had over 200 of them 
• they found a lot of silver on their land
• Themistoclesthey  said they should spend the wealth on ships
• they wanted to build the best naval base in Greece
• Xerxes took his father Darius´s place
• he wants to burn Athens to the ground
• he gathered his forces and he had 2 million men
• When the Persian army was coming they ravaged the land
• Xerxes was confident
• they turned to the Gods for help
• they asked the Oracle (someone who can see the future) for their fate at Delphi 
• the Oracle said that they were doomed and that they could not stop them
• they decided to fight by sea
• They had to evacuate Athens
• Salamis is where they went to to is where they met the other people of Greece
• The Persians burned the Acropolis 
• wants to fight on the Straits of Salamis
• he sends a spy to Xerxes to pretend that he is a traitor
• and tells him that they are scared and know they are going to crush them
• Persian navy is 4X the size of the Greeks
• the Greeks won
• that is the second time they won
• Dealian League is where all the land they owned was
• they traded with everyone