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Themistocles

Athenian statesman and general who built up the navy and defeated the Persian fleet at Salamis in 480 BC

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  1. 492 BC – 479 BCPersian Warscommander

    Achaemenid Persia invaded Greece three times, but an alliance of city-states led by Athens and Sparta drove it back at Marathon, Salamis and Plataea.

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    480 BCBattle of Salamiscommander

    In 480 BC the Greek fleet led by Themistocles defeated Xerxes’ Persian fleet in the straits of Salamis.

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  • Xerxes I465 BC

    King of Achaemenid Persia (r. 486–465 BC), son of Darius I, who invaded Greece in 480 BC and was defeated at Salamis

  • Darius I550 BC – 486 BC

    King of Achaemenid Persia (r. 522–486 BC) who organized the empire through satrapies and the Royal Road

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  • Greece and Rome2000 BC – AD 476

    From the Aegean civilisation to the fall of the Western Roman Empire — the classical civilisation built by the democracy of the polis and the Roman republic and empire