The Persian king, Cyrus the Great, ruled his vast empire thr…

The Persian king, Cyrus the Great, ruled his vast empire through a system of , or Persian governors.    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

The greatest enemy of Greece was the Persian Empire. During…

The greatest enemy of Greece was the Persian Empire. During the second Persian War, under the leadership of 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