Around 590 BC, Darius directed a Persian fleet of about 25,000 men or more to arrive at a land northeast of Athens, Marathon. Surprisingly, the Persians met up with neatly arra

Meanwhile, during the Persian march to Athens, the Oracle of Delphi prophesized that everything “Athenian would be burned to the ground except for what lay behind a wooden wall,” and it confused the Athenians. However, Thermistocles, an Athenian statesman, knew that the “wooden wall” referred to the great Athenian navy. He told the people to evacuate Athens (to either the city of Troezan or Salamis) since they had to fight at sea. He positioned the Greek fleet in a narrow channel near Salamis, forming a kind of “wall” to block the Persians. Xerxes and his army obliterated Athens and proceeded to Salamis. He ordered to block both ends of the channel. This plan would backfire since the channels were so narrow that the Persians could not maneuver well. The Greek ships then drove battering rams straight into the wooden hull, puncturing the Persian ships. More than one-third of Xerxes ships sunk causing the Persians to retreat once again.

In 480 BC,

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