The Battle of Marathon

Everything Everywhere Daily

Gary Arndt

History, Education

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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In the year 490 BC, one of the most pivotal battles in world history took place. Just north of the City of Athens, Persian and Greek forces clashed in what was to be the first of several Persian attempts to invade Greece. Despite being seriously outnumbered, the Greeks managed to win a decisive victory that had long-lasting ramifications. Learn more about the Battle of Marathon, its causes, and its outcome on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors Draft Kings Step into the thrilling world of sports and entertainment with DraftKings, where every day is game day! Join the millions of fans who have already discovered the ultimate destination for fantasy sports and sports betting. Download the DraftKings Sportsbook app and use code EVERYTHING to score two hundred dollars in bonus bets instantly when you bet just five dollars! Newspapers.com Newspapers.com is like a time machine. Dive into their extensive online archives to explore history as it happened. With over 800 million digitized newspaper pages spanning three centuries, Newspapers.com provides an unparalleled gateway to the past, with papers from the US, UK, Canada, Australia and beyond. Use the code “EverythingEverywhere” at checkout to get 20% off a publisher extra subscription at newspapers.com. Noom Noom is not just another diet or fitness app. It’s a comprehensive lifestyle program designed to empower you to make lasting changes and achieve your health goals. With Noom, you’ll embark on a personalized journey that considers your unique needs, preferences, and challenges. Their innovative approach combines cutting-edge technology with the support of a dedicated team of experts, including registered dietitians, nutritionists, and behavior change specialists. Noom’s changing how the world thinks about weight loss. Go to noom.com to sign up for your trial today! ButcherBox ButcherBox is the perfect solution for anyone looking to eat high-quality, sustainably sourced meat without the hassle of going to the grocery store. With ButcherBox, you can enjoy a variety of grass-fed beef, heritage pork, free-range chicken, and wild-caught seafood delivered straight to your door every month. ButcherBox.com/Daily Subscribe to the podcast! https://link.chtbl.com/EverythingEverywhere?sid=ShowNotes -------------------------------- Executive Producer: Charles Daniel Associate Producers: Peter Bennett & Cameron Kieffer Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere Update your podcast app at newpodcastapps.com Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFh Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/everythingeverywheredaily Twitter: https://twitter.com/everywheretrip Website: https://everything-everywhere.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	In the year 490 BC one of the most pivotal battles in world history took place.
0:05.0	Just north of the city of Athens, Persian and Greek forces clashed in what was to become the first Persian attempt to invade Greece.
0:12.0	Despite being outnumbered over 2-1,
0:14.5	the Greeks managed to win a decisive victory
0:16.8	that had long-lasting ramifications.
0:19.3	Learn more about the Battle of Marathon,
0:21.1	its causes and its outcome, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. To understand why the Battle of Marathon took place, we have to understand the events that led up to it.
0:45.1	Even a cursory inspection would show that a clash between Greece and Persia was pretty much inevitable.
0:50.8	But first, let's start with Greece.
0:53.0	Ancient Greece wasn't a singular uniform entity.
0:56.0	There was no Greek Empire,
0:58.0	although there would be a Macedonian Empire later on.
1:01.0	The Greeks can be better thought of as a civilization, a collection of city
1:05.2	states that often fall with each other but were united under common linguistic, cultural, and
1:09.5	religious practices. The Greeks didn't just inhabit the area that makes up modern-day Greece.
1:15.0	They had spread out establishing satellite colonies around the coast of the Mediterranean, Black, and the GNCs.
1:20.0	For the purpose of this episode, this included many Greek communities that existed in modern day Turkey
1:25.4	especially in the area along the Bosporus Strait and in the Aegean Sea.
1:30.3	The Persians were very different from the Greeks.
1:33.0	The Persian Empire had expanded rapidly and conquered many lands with different people who had different cultures and languages.
1:39.0	The Persian Empire, and if you remember back to my previous episode on this subject, I'm talking about the Acheminid Empire, or the first Persian Empire, was the largest in the world at this time.
1:50.0	As the empire expanded westward, it eventually bumped into Greek cities located on the Asian side of the Aegean.
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