Greece! Part 4!

Themistocles was touchy because he didn't come into power the right way. Themistocles has learned leadership skills at the podium and show to be the greatest leader. He realized that the Persian, if they came, would be there to win and never give up. Themistocles invented a boat, that was state of the art, it was light weight and fast. With it you ram other ships, but they were very expensive and they probably couldn't have gotten them if it wasn't for luck. The Athenians discovered silver, worth over 100 tallens, they wanted to it but Themistocles wanted to spend the money on ships. He played a buff, and told them the ships would be used for a hometown rival instead of Persia, they built the greatest naval fleet ever known. The Persian kind Darius died and Xerxes, his son, had taken over. Xerxes  army was the biggest force ever mad, the word reached Athens that Persia was coming. It was said they drank away rivers and that Persia was set to take over the world, that God could only see Persian land. The orical of Delphi built around a separate cavern with its own spring and asked questions to the Gods. People asked questions about their private life. They got bad news and they evacuated Athens for the first time ever. Themistocles wanted to meet at Salamis a tiny island off the coast. Xerxes entered the city and burnt it to the ground, and people could see the smoke. Themistocles wanted to fight in the straight of Salamas and Xerxes wanted to crush them, the had to find a way to get Xerxes to come by saying Themistocles was scared and it worked. Xerxes watched his army dying from his golden thrown on the shore. The Persians lost 200 ships and the Athenians won, which means they cant protect themselves. Themistocles had beaten the best Empire of all time. There was a new dawn for Greece, it had a momentum of its on and were on the road to becoming a superpower. They founded the Delian League and the Greeks would pool together and it was Athens empire. PERICLES, he was the leader of Athens at its high point. He knew what the Athenians wanted, an empire.