For three decades, Sparta until overthrown by Thebes.
The United Kingdom inherited the role of being the dominant world power as a result of the Napoleonic Wars.
Xerxes I of Persia became king of Persia in 486BC and continued his father's campaigns against Greece in the Persian Wars.
Yes.
The United Kingdom inherited the role of being the dominant world power as a result of the Napoleonic Wars.
Thermopylae was a very minor event in the 50-year Persian Wars. It failed to have any influence on the wars, and only later became symbolic of courage.
Pericles .
Rome became the dominant force throughout the western Mediterranean area .
It did not. The Persian Wars began in 499 BCE when the Greek city-states of Asia Minor revolted against Persian rule. Athens became involved when it sent an expedition to assist those cities.
Sparta remained a dominant military power until later wars erode its strength to the stage where Thebes defeated Sparta and took over dominance.became the dominant
Its called ''the Persian wars'' or the ''Greco-Persian wars''.
Persian Wars.
Greco-Persian Wars happened in -449.