Battle of Thermopylae. During the summer of 480 BC‚ the great Spartan King Leonidas and his 300 soldiers accompanied by approximately 7000 Greeks held out for three days against hundreds of thousands of Persian soldiers‚ under the command of King Xerxes. This was no easy feat to accomplish by the Spartans‚ without their superior combat skills and warlike mentality‚ they would have easily been demolished by the Persian army. After two days of fighting‚ they were eventually betrayed by a man named
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The Roman Empire and Persian Empire were some of the greatest civilizations of all time. There were many similarities in how these civilizations rose to power and how they fell from it. Among these were the over-expansion of territory which led to many problems that built up to their downfall and a similar political system that made local rebellions minimal. However the way in which these civilizations chose to try and correct their flaws is quite different. One of the biggest factors
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underwent a name change from Hadassah‚ a Hebrew name‚ which would have revealed her Jewish descent (3). The divine intervention of God in Esther life largely comes in the days of King Xerxes and is recounted in the Book of Esther. The story of Esther largely takes place in fourth century BCE (2). During this time‚ King Xerxes was recently divorced and in search of a queen. Esther 2:2-4‚ states: “Let beautiful young virgins be sought out for the king…And let the girl who pleases the king be queen instead
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become one of the most inspiring battles of Greek history. Leonidas‚ the Spartan “king‚” is warned by messengers from the Persian empire to kneel before Xerxes‚ the Persian god-king‚ or to see his beloved Sparta be destroyed and it’s loyal people be captured as slaves. Leonidas denies these requests as a free man who will kneel to no one. Xerxes‚ seeing this as a threat to his newly established empire‚ wages war against Leonidas his city state of Sparta. As in any story there is a traitor‚ which
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The Greek army held the Persians at the passage for three days’ despite being greatly outnumbered‚ with some sources suggesting there were 50 Persian soldiers to one Greek (Pudrusch 2007). However‚ a traitor informed Xerxes of a secret route that would lead the Persians to an area behind the Greeks. The Persians followed the path and trapped the Greek army (Hammond 1988‚ p. 555; Thomas 2014‚ p. 50). At this point‚ Leonides discharged most of the other Greek soldiers
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strongest depictions of women I’ve met in fiction for a while. The women don’t fight in the battles‚ yet are courageous and compassionate‚ intelligent and influential. One of my favourite speeches in the book is addressed to Xerxes‚ the King of Persia‚ and contrasts Xerxes with Leonidas: "I will tell His Majesty what a king is. A king does not abide within his tent while his men bleed and die upon the field. A king does not dine while his men go hungry‚ nor sleep when they stand at watch upon the
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of the thirst of power‚ as mentioned before. Just like in Hamlet how Claudius kills his brother so he can take the throne‚ people have been killing each other for power positions since the beginning of time. Xerxes II was killed by his brother‚ Sogdianus‚ after he conspired against him (“Xerxes II”). Mary Queen of Scots was killed by another queen‚ Queen Elizabeth I‚ because she saw her as a threat to her own throne (“The Execution”). In today’s more
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falter in her faith and stood strong in the face of adversity and danger and God used her to help save his people from an evil ruler. With her people at risk‚ Queen Esther knew she must do something in order to save the Jews from being killed by King Xerxes. Esther 3 verse 6 says‚ “But he disdained to lay hands on Mordecai alone‚ for they had told him of the people
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Architecture‚ philosophy‚ literature‚ and even the very word “music” we owe to the Greeks. Greek poets‚ architects‚ mathematicians‚ and philosophers‚ founded a culture that we still identify with today. These are the people that introduced the world to democracy‚ the beginning of recorded history‚ politics‚ and even our very own vocabulary. To some extent‚ we even owe the start of theatre and comedy to the Greeks. The Greeks taught us a lot of things‚ good or bad‚ these things are still being used
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Day of Empire Essay In Day Of Empire‚ Amy Chua throughout the book explains the rises and falls of the most powerful hyper powers‚ large empires being able to maintain large areas while being stable in history. Her thesis of the book states tolerance was the rise and fall of the first empires in history. Where tolerance is the cause and decline of an empire. The empires had tolerance‚ Chua explains in her book that tolerance is the freedom of the people to do as they please and coexist with each
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