HISTORY
ANCIENT GREECE
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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expanded their land into Asia Minor
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became a naval power in the Mediterranean
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dominated the Delian League
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withdrew into isolation from others
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Detailed explanation-1: -An army of Spartans, Thespians and Thebans remained to fight the Persians. Leonidas and the 300 Spartans with him were all killed, along with most of their remaining allies. The Persians found and beheaded Leonidas’ corpse–an act that was considered to be a grave insult.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Spartan withdrawal from the League allowed Athens to establish unchallenged naval and commercial power within the Hellenic world.
Detailed explanation-3: -The first Persian invasion of Greece, during the Greco-Persian Wars, began in 492 BC, and ended with the decisive Athenian victory at the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC.
Detailed explanation-4: -After Thermopylae, the Greeks went on to achieve great victories at Salamis and Plataea where they decisively defeated the Persians. Leonidas and his men had reinforced the prestige of Sparta and raised the morale of all Greeks to continue fighting against Persia.