No, Sparta remained politically independent until the Roman conquest of 146 BC.
He was Xerxes
It was Destroyed by the Persians
The Persians
from shipyard
Sparta
King Leonidas
No. They did not get further south than Athens.
Persians
They were very separated by the mountainous land, but in the Battle of Salamis Sparta and Athens united to take down the Persians.
539 BCE.
The Persians did not have a war with Sparta. They invaded mainland Greece to put an end to their interference in supporting uprisings of Greek cities in Persian-ruled Asia. They were repelled by a coalition of city-states from southern Greece, of which Sparta was but one.
Thermopylae is the pass where the Spartans fought the Persians. The Athenians simultaneously fought the Persians in the battle of Salamis (a naval battle)