Today in West Civ class we watched the video we watched when Mr.Schick was not here. He explained to us the important parts of the video we already watched. We talked about the Golden Age where Phidepidies ran to warn the others about the persians coming. Then we talked about Darius who is known as the "great king"  Persians 0 Athenians 1. Athenians Rule. They invented the trieme where they would have a narrow top and ram into you and sink your ship. it had 3 rows. Xerxes was Darius's son. He wanted to burn down Greece. Salamis a tiny island off of the west coast of Athens. Xerxes burned all of Athens down and they could see it from Salamis. The greeks tricked the persians and they actually beat them with very little poeple compared to their massive army.