Wars of Ancient Greece
The picture to the right shows the picture of the Trojan horse which is how the Greeks got inside the gates of Troy. The Trojan War lasted 10 years, and Odysseus was said to have come up with the idea. The Greeks left the horse outside the gates of Troy with about 50 men inside as a peace offering. They pretended to leave, and when the people of Troy saw the horse, they celebrated without knowing that they had let in their enemy. When they got inside the gate, they set the city on fire and began killing everyone, which ended the Trojan War.
The Peloponnesian War lasted 27 years and was a conflict between Athens and Sparta. Sparta eventually won and Athens never really recovered from the defeat. Xerxes, a Persian military leader and ruler, was defeated by Sparta at Salamis. He sent 200,000 soldiers to attack, but was defeated by the combined Greek city-states. Earlier, Xerxes had defeated Sparta at Thermopylae, which means hot gates, against only 300 Spartans. People thought of their mission as a suicide mission because there were so little of them. They fought with all their might and lost their spears in the fighting, so they used their swords, but those got lost, so they used their daggers, until they lost those and were fighting with their bare hands.
The Peloponnesian War lasted 27 years and was a conflict between Athens and Sparta. Sparta eventually won and Athens never really recovered from the defeat. Xerxes, a Persian military leader and ruler, was defeated by Sparta at Salamis. He sent 200,000 soldiers to attack, but was defeated by the combined Greek city-states. Earlier, Xerxes had defeated Sparta at Thermopylae, which means hot gates, against only 300 Spartans. People thought of their mission as a suicide mission because there were so little of them. They fought with all their might and lost their spears in the fighting, so they used their swords, but those got lost, so they used their daggers, until they lost those and were fighting with their bare hands.