Cleisthenes created the battleship of the time called a trireme. In 483 B.C. Athenians found silver and the price of silver helped build the boats. Meanwhile, Xerxes pledged to destroy Athens as 'revenge' for his father's defeat on account of Athens. In 480 B.C. the Persian army set out for Greece. There were over two million Persians. The people of Athens went to the Oracle. Which is someone that can see the future, Delphi is the most famous of these. Cleisthenes met with the other rulers of Greek city states to come up with a plan. They decided that with their new boats the safest and most effective way was to fight the Persians at sea. Evacuations were happening in Athens. (It was the first in history.) The people escaped to Salamis an island off the coast. This is also where the Greeks would fight the Persians; in the Isle of Salamis.
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