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He ruled from 488 BC- 480 BC when he died at the Battle of Thermopylae
The question is confused. The first king of the Persian empire was Cyrus. The king during the punitive expedition against Athens and Eretria in 490 BCE was Darius. The king during the invasion of Greece 480-479 BCE was Xerxes.
Thermopylae.480 BCE.
Salamis was a strait near Athens where a Greek fleet defeated a Persian fleet in 480 BCE. This the turning point in the Persian invasion of peninsular Greece.
480 b.C.
Xerxes I was king during the Persian invasion of Greece in 480-479 BCE. Darius III was king during Alexander's conquest of Persia 150 years later and, therefore, the last Persian King of the Hellenistic Period.
Xerxes.
Persian king Xerxes invaded mainland Greece in 480-479 BCE.
King Xerxes.
King Xerxes I led the expedition to Greece in 480-479 which was driven back by the combined forces of the southern Greek city-states.
Sparta's king during the time around the Persian's second invasion of Greece was Leonidas. He was alive from about 540 BC to 480 BC.
He ruled from 488 BC- 480 BC when he died at the Battle of Thermopylae
Athens and Sparta.
The name of the brave king who died in battle while protecting Sparta from the Persian was Leonidas. He died a heroic death at the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C.
The question is confused. The first king of the Persian empire was Cyrus. The king during the punitive expedition against Athens and Eretria in 490 BCE was Darius. The king during the invasion of Greece 480-479 BCE was Xerxes.
Persia lost.
480-479 BCE.