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Who defeated Chaldean and conquered the Babylons?
During the 500s B.C., a group of people called the Persians swept across southwest Asia. The Persians defeated the Chaldeans and took over Babylon. In 538 B.C. the Persian King Cyrus permitted Jews to return to Judah.
What Greek city-state protected itself from its powerful neighbor and to defend against a threat from the Persian Empire?
All Greek city-states had to protect themselves from their neighbours - they were a predatory people. And when the Persian threat emerged, they had to choose between submitting to Persian rule or joining a confederation to oppose invasion. The opposing group was led by Sparta, and after it was removed, the Greek cities went back to fighting each other. Athens tried for dominance and was defeated by the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta. Then Thebes, originally a Persian ally, took over from Sparta, and in turn all the city-states were dominated by Macedonia.
Who conquered the Persian Empire?
It depends what you mean by "The Persian Empire". There were many. Here is a list of some of the main ones: Median Empire(728-549 BCE)- Overthrown in 549 BCE by the leader of a new group arriving on the Iranian Plateau: Cyrus the Great. Achaemenid Empire(549-330 BCE)- The world's first superpower and empire; Overthrown by Alexander the Great of Macedonia in 330 BCE Seleucid Empire(312-63 BCE)- Founded by a military general of Alexander the Great after his death. In this society, Greek was the language of law and profession. Parthian Empire(247 BCE- 224 CE)- Formed after a Persian leader rebelled against the Greco-Seleucid government. Fought many wars against the Roman Empire and managed to withstand nearly all attacks. Once this empire took the Roman emperor prisoner and skinned him alive, keeping his stuff body in the Royal Parthian Palace. Sassanid Empire(224- 671 CE)- Founded after the Parthians were overthrown. This empire fought against Byzantine and was the last Zoroastrian Persian Empire. This one ended when the Arab tribes of the Arabian Peninsula invaded and forced everybody to convert to Islam, although much of the time people were just pretending to be Muslim in order to not be executed. After these 5 ancient empires, the Arab caliphates ruled Persia until roughly
What group of people built empires in the 1400s?
the group that built the empire is the Aztec.
Did the 300 Spartans exist?
We have reliable historians who have recorded this to be so, but not in quite the romantic way depicted in some accounts and movies. The 300 were the bodyguard of King Leonidas of Sparta. As the invading Persians had a strong amphibious capability which threatened the Greek cities, the cities all kept their main armies back for home defence, including Sparta. So Leonidas took this bodyguard, plus a couple of thousand serfs owned by them as light infantry, to Thermopylai to help the other city contingents hold the pass and force a sea battle in the adjacent strait, in an attempt to cripple the Persian naval forces, and so get rid of the amphibious threat. The sea battle at Artemesion was a failure, and so the sacrifice was in vain. A second sea battle at Salamis, off Athens, was successful, and with the amphibious threat gone, the cities sent their full armies to Plataia the following spring and defeated the Persian land forces and their Greek allies, ending the Persian invasion.
