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Indeed it did! The invasion by Xerxes I of Persia happened in 480 BC. He invaded the Peloponese with a force of (apparently, recorded by Herodotus) over 5,200,000! The war was not really with Sparta in particular but with the whole peninsula.
The famous battle of Thermopylae was during this conflict, where 300 Spartans and about 5,000 other Greek troops held back Xerxes forces at a narrow pass in order to give the combined Greek forces time to mobilize.
The movie '300' was based on this battle. Stephen Pressfield's novel Gates of Fire is a good read on this subject. As is Thermopylae by Paul Carteledge.
The other famous battle is 'Salamis' in which the Greek (mainly Athenian) navy destroyed the Persian fleet.
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Did king Xerxes die with Queen Esther?
A:The Book of Esther tells us that Esther married King Xerxes (Ahasuerus) of Persia and became queen, but the story ends with both Xerxes and Esther still alive so the question is unanswerable. Scholars say that the Book of Esther was really a second-century-BCE Jewish novel, so the question can not be answered from the historical record..
Who in the Bible defiles and disrespects her royal husband and is replaced by a foreign woman?
In the Book of Esther, Vashti, wife of King Xerxes, showed disrespect to him and was replaced by the beautiful Jew, Esther. Historians say that the wife of Xerxes I was really Amestris and that she was not replaced, so this is not a historical account.
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No they weren't deformed. This army was comprised of well-proportioned fit human beings of whom he had plenty to choose from.
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I really hope so! And if they do, make it Co-Op online for PC!
Was King Ahasuerus of Queen Esther's day oriental?
Ahasuerus is believed to have been the Hebrew name for Xerxes. King Xerxes I ruled the Persian Empire at the appropriate time for the story of Esther, although he was not really her husband. He was a Mede, from a tribe closely related to the Persians and ancestral to the Iranians of today.
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yes, but the voting system wasn't really that great because they virtually had to voice their opion
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"It really really really could happen Yes it really really really could happen When the days they seem to fall through you Just let them go" by Blur
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Haha really depends. I would say a spartan but a gladiator has better equipment. Spartans were harshly trained since the age of 7 and the gladiators were either POW or volunteers. You would have to go back in history and put two together and minus one.
