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Perry Ancient Greek art was influenced by society, influenced society, and is still influencing society today. Greek art was influenced specifically on traditions or origins. Much of the art told stories and had great value. Minoan art for example tells of many stories about the Minatare rather it be a sculpture or a painting. A few types of art were pottery, painting, and figurines/sculptures. A big part of art that was influenced by Greeks that is still around today, architecture. Even in Fredericksburg many columns are based from Greek art, a lot of columns at Mary Washington College look similar to the ones of the Greeks thousands of years ago. [|Perry]

When the Persian Empire decided to invade parts of Greece its city states united together and fought back, and succeeded. This battle was fought in 490 B.C. just north of Athens with Persia sending 600 hundred ships and 20,000 soldiers, one on foot and one on horseback, to fight against 10,000 Greek soldiers. The Persian army was lead my King Darius 1st .The Athenians army was lead by Miltiades  As many as 6,400 Persians died and only 164 Greeks died. This victory being made possible by the forced clustering of the Persians by Greek Archers while Greek infantry went to the sides to flank the Persian invaders. The fight is called the Battle of Marathon because a messenger named Pheidippideas ran himself to death in order to announce the Victory of the Greeks to the city of Athens. He said, "Nike" the Greek word for Victory. http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/marathon.htm http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/persianwararticles/a/MarathonBattle.htm http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/History/Battles/Marathon.html
 * The Battle of Marathon**

Although the Athenians were greatly outnumbered at the battle of Marathon, they pulled through to win the battle which exceeded everyone’s expectations. "Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before." —//Herodotus on Courage.// This quote shows directly how the Athenians never stopped fighting even at the very end, which helped them succeed victory with almost unbeatable odds against the Persians.

Slaves played a key importance in the ancient Greek world, considering there were less free people then slaves. [|Ancient Greek slavery] was not like American slavery it was not racially based. Greek Slaves worked in houses, factories, farms,shops, etc. Slaves were either sold into slavery by debt, born into it, or a prisoner from another empire. Slaves would be [|sold] for 10 mina all the way down to 1/2 a mina. Depending on a slaves job was how they were [|treated] in society, many servant type slaves were looked at as a part of the family. Although some slaves were treated well others were not, for instance slaves with less honorable jobs looked down on and treated less fairly. Surprisingly police forces in Anchient Greece were made up of primarily enslaved people.

Questions

1.) Did the war between Persia and Greece directly effect Greek citizens and or it's society, if so how?

2.) How did the Athenians and other Greece city states over power such a powerful empire as Persia?