It continued on for another 150 years until taken over by Macedonia led by Alexander the great.
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Thermopylae.480 BCE.
The Persian Empire.
The Persian Empire was not a person.
Destruction of the Persian fleet meant the eventual failure of the Persian attempt to incorporate the mainland Greek city-states within the Persian Empire.
It was fought to protect the Spartan and Greek homeland from the invading Persian Empire.