CIVILIZATION
GREEK
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Question
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What was so surprising about the Battle of Marathon?
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The Athenians, who were far outnumbered by the Persians and had no archers or cavalry, won the battle.
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300 Spartans held off the Persians for seven days.
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The smaller Athenian ships of the Athenian navy sank much of the Persian fleet.
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This was the only Persian victory.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Few of the other Greek city-states answered Athens’s call for help. As a result, the Athenian force of 11, 000 soldiers was great-ly outnumbered as it faced 15, 000 Persian invaders on the battlefield at Marathon. Through fierce hand-to-hand combat, the Athenian soldiers ousted the Persians.
Detailed explanation-2: -The space between the armies was no less than eight stadium-lengths. The Persians saw them running to attack and prepared to receive them, thinking the Athenians absolutely crazy, since they saw how few of them there were and that they ran up so fast without either cavalry or archers.
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