the plan was to get as much men as the could get and just come together and go against the greeks.
480 BCE.
Aegean Sea
From Gallipoli through Thrace, Macedonia and Thessaly into mainland Greece.
A decade.
They lost.
Leonidas was king of Sparta when xerxes led the Persians to attack Greece, leonidas led the famous 300 spartens to meet the Persians and bought the rest of Greece enough time to asemble an army capable of defeating xerxes.
Revolution in Greece led by Thebes. He sold their people into slavery as a warning to the other city-states.
They did not want to attack Thermopylai. They wanted to go through thr pass of Thermopylai from northern to southern Greece which was blocked by a small Greek force.
the plan was to get as much men as the could get and just come together and go against the greeks.
The Persians did not control Greece. They had scores of Greek city-states in Asia Minor within their empire.
Ferociously.
they wanted to punish the Persians for attacking Greece