The greatest enemy of Greece was the Persian Empire. During…
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The greаtest enemy оf Greece wаs the Persiаn Empire. During the secоnd Persian War, under the leadership оf the Spartan king Leonidas and his contingent of three hundred Spartans, a Greek force numbering close to nine thousand held off the Persian army at the Battle of for two days. The Spartan troops were especially brave. When told that Persian arrows would darken the sky in battle, one Spartan warrior supposedly responded, “That is good news. We will fight in the shade!” Hegemon, Hoplites, Etruscans, Intermediate, Thermopylae, Carthage, Sparta, Cuneiform, Rhetoric, Canuleian, Assyrians, Satraps, Civilization, Ziggurat, Hortensian, Gaugamela, Peloponnesian, Spartacus, Athens, Mountains, Vestal Virgins, Hanging Gardens, Julius Caesar, Code of Hammurabi, Hannibal