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In this extra credit discussion you will review the 22 minute You Tube video on The Battle of Marathon.
Instructions:
In this graded discussion you will review the You Tube video on Decisive Battles-Episode 4-Marathon, 490 B.C. The video is about 22 minutes long.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiOwZ6XWyDQ (Links to an external site.)
Once you have watched the video, answer the following questions for five extra credit points:
- What is the main argument, purpose, or point of the film?
- What sources are used? (This may include artifacts, documents, diaries, photographs, or testimony of
experts.) - What did you learn from viewing the film?
- What did you like about the film?
- What did you not like about the film?
- Should the film be viewed in future History 1 classes?
Names mentioned in film: King Darius of Persia, Athenian general Miltiades, Persian General Datis, Athenian messenger Pheidippides.
The main purpose of the film is to depict the unprecedented victory of the Greeks un the Battle of Marathon against Darius and his vast Persian Empire. The Greeks were outnumbered, 2 to 1, but