In Class 3-10-11

In class today we went over the Slides we did on ancient Greece. My slide was about the Bridge of Hellespont that Xerxes built to attack Greece, reading the articles about it, it really confused me because it said: "According to the Greek historian Herodotus, Xerxes' first attempt to bridge the Hellespont ended in failure when a storm destroyed the flax and papyrus bridge; Xerxes ordered the Hellespont (the strait itself) whipped three hundred times and had fetters thrown into the water" This made absolutely no sense to me because the man commanded people to whip a body of watter...? I though I just read a typo, but whatever. We also talked about Leonidas, a Spartan king that went through the training the youths did to become a warrior. Leonidas and his 300 warriors fought off millions of Persian soldiers and they actually were successful for a few days fighting at Thermopylae, this inspired the rest of Greece to join together and fight against Persia. Back in ancient Greece this battle of Thermopylae was so unheard of because Persia was the greatest empire the ancient world has EVER seen, so since this is true, Persia wasn't a place to mess with. Herodotus was a Greek historian and is known as the "Father of History". He was the first historian to collect materials systematically, and test for the accuracy and arranged them very detailed. Some of the stories Herodotus wrote were not completely true, all he said was "I only write what I hear".