The Pass of Thermopylae.
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No, Greece was not a colony to another country in recent history. However, in ancient history, Greece was subjected to colonization by various ancient powers such as the Persians, Romans, and Ottomans.
it might have been the Persians under xerxes, or the roman legions.
The Persians treated other well. They could keep their own language and religion and the Assyrians were very cruel to defeated peoples..GEOGRAPHY:World History....
There were many famous conquerors who conquered or ruled Samarkland. As for ancient ones, I'd say the Persians and Alexander the Great (Macedonian or Greek).
Herodotus was an ancient Greek historian. Because of his works he has been honored in the modern world as the "Father of History". He lived from 485 BC BCE to 425 BC BCE. He is most famous for his histories of wars between the Greeks and the Persians.
The pass of Thermopylae was used by peoples for thousands of years as a route between northern and southern Greece, first by nomadic peoples, then for trade and invasion. This led the Persians to use it as their route into southern Greece when they invaded in 480 BCE.
That's so far back in ancient history that there's no record of the event.
The Persians (twice technically), the Macedonians (by Alexander the Great), and the Arabs (under the Umayaads). All of these happened fairly late in Ancient Egyptian history, during the New Kingdom.
First Cyrus the Great who created the Persian Empire, and then Alexander the Great who took it off the Persians two hundred years later.
The Persians primarily descended from the Indo-Iranian peoples, who migrated to the Iranian Plateau around 1500 BCE. They are part of the larger Indo-European family and are closely related to the Medes, another ancient Iranian group. Over time, the Persians established the Achaemenid Empire, which became one of the largest empires in history, further shaping their identity and culture.
Herodotos.