The pass of Thermopylae was the location of the famous stand by three hundred Spartans and 7,00o other Greek soldiers against the Persian army.
The Spartans 300 was in fact 2,400 counting their light infantry. The Spratans were part of a blocking force of 7,000 from other Greek city-states holding the pass.
The Battle of Thermopylae .
The Spartans only lost two battles in 500 years.
After the Persians failed to bring peace to the eastern Mediterranean in the Persian Wars, Persia withdrew to leave the Greek cities to get back to their usual fighting between each other. Athens then turned the anti-Persian league it led into an empire of its own, and over-reached itself, bringing on a war with the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta. This 27-year war severely damaged the city-states of Greece. In the process Sparta had to turn to Persia for support, and then defeated Athens, stripping it of its empire. The weakened cities continued fighting amongst each other in varying alliances, and Thebes replaced Sparta as the leading power. All this fighting paved the way for the dominance of Macedonia.
It bolts to the intake manifold near the throttle body.
Sparta's population was mostly slaves, and their economy depended on slave labor. A slave revolt would certainly be economically devastating, and there was a distinct chance that the slaves would win and overthrow the Spartan government, so obviously this was always something Sparta was worried about.
The Battle of Thermopylae .
The Spartans combined with the other southern Greek states to repel a Persian invasion designed to incorporate mainland Greece within the Persian empire in 480-479 BCE.It is often called today the Persian War, however the Greeks fought the Persians off and on over two hundred years.
Three Spartans died defending the pass of Thermopylae
Initially the Peloponnese Peninsula, but later in the war, it was a couple of hundred city-states in Asia Minor liberated from Persian rule, and with a vested interest in keeping the Persians at bay.
The Persian Empire fought the Persian War against a couple of hundred Greek city-states over fifty years 499-449-BCE.
Yes. While succeeding in battle, a traitor led the Persians to a secret passage behind the Spartans, in my opinion killing the worlds greatest soldiers.
The Persian Empire and a couple of hundred of the city-states of the Greek world.
The Spartans were at war every few years for several hundred years.
Three hundred Spartans died defending the Pass of Thermopylae, also known as The Hot Gates. After the battle was over, the Persians gained control of Boeotia.
Not a million, the actual number of the Persians is estimated to be about Seventy thousand to three hundred thousand. Also, there wasn't only 300 Spartans. There was Thespians, Arcadians, Corinthians, Phocans, and other Greeks, the total Greek force was about Five thousand, or around there. Only 300 of those Greeks were Spartans, however.
The other way around - Greek culture influenced the Persian Empire - first because of the couple of hundred Greek city-states located in Asia Minor and the Islands which were part of the Persian Empire, and later by Alexander the Great's takeover of the Empire, and the partially-successful attempts by him and his successors to introduce Greek culture throughout the Empire.
In his grave for the past couple of hundred years.