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Vol 3 Ep 10 - BATTLE - The Battle of Marathon ( 490 BCE )

History of the World podcast

Chris Hasler

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🗓️ 16 February 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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490 BCE - The Achaemenid Persians had been succesfully expanding their influence across the known world, but when the Athenians supported a revolt of Greek people within the Persian Empire, the Achaemenids sought revenge. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/historyoftheworldpodcast/message

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This is the History of the World Podcast with me Chris Hasler

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And you're listening to volume three, the classical world

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episode 10

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The Battle of Marathon. Oh, So,

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So, So, So,

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So, So, So, And L Location. The city of Marathon is based on the east coast of the Attica Peninsula, which is the same peninsula where one can find the city of Athens.

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This area of the Balkan Peninsula would have certainly fallen into the Mytonian sphere of influence during the second

1:36.4

millennium B.C. E. not least of all because the Attica Peninsula was the closest mainland area to the well populated and

1:45.8

civilized Cycladic islands. The Marceans would have certainly used the Attica Peninsula to develop a dominance over the

1:56.4

a g and sea and its islands and neighbouring lands. As we all very well know by now, the Mycenae culture near enough disappeared by 1100

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B.C. and we sometimes mention a race of people called the Dorians when supposing who may have

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supplanted the Mycenians living in the Balkan Peninsula.

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We tend to attribute the Peloponnese and the Polish of Sparta as the place where the Dorians

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migrated to, if indeed they did. If we suppose that they did then it may be that a people called the Ionian

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were displaced from the Peloponnese and migrated to Attica.

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And if this is the case, then it would support the theory that the ancient Athenians were Ionian with no Dorian influence but we are a very long way

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from confirming that it's not surprising to state that we know very little about this region after 1100

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