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What Vastly expanded Persian territories establishing the which was the largest the world had ever seen?
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Which Persian leader invaded Greece with 200000 soldiers in 480 B.C.?
The second Persian invasion of Greece (480-479 BC) occurred during the Greco-Persian Wars, as King Xerxes I of Persia sought to conquer all of Greece. The invasion was a direct, if delayed, response to the defeat of the first Persian invasion of Greece (492-490 BC) at the Battle of Marathon which ended Darius I's attempts to subjugate Greece. After Darius's death, his son Xerxes spent several years planning for the second invasion, mustering an enormous army and navy. The Athenians andSpartans led the Greek resistance, with some 70 city-states joining the 'Allied' effort. However, most of the Greek cities remained neutral or submitted to Xerxes. The invasion began in spring 480 BC, when the Persian army crossed the Hellespontand marched through Thrace and Macedon to Thessaly. The Persian advance was blocked at the pass of Thermopylae by a small Allied force under King Leonidas I of Sparta; simultaneously, the Persian fleet was blocked by an Allied fleet at the straits of Artemisium. At the famous Battle of Thermopylae, the Allied army held back the Persian army for seven days, before they were outflanked by a mountain path and the Allied rearguard was trapped in the pass and annihilated. The Allied fleet had also withstood two days of Persian attacks at the Battle of Artemisium, but when news reached them of the disaster at Thermopylae, they withdrew to Salamis. After Thermopylae, all of Boeotia and Attica fell to the Persian army, who captured and burnt Athens. However, a larger Allied army fortified the narrow Isthmus of Corinth, protecting the Peloponnesus from Persian conquest. Both sides thus sought out a naval victory which might decisively alter the course of the war. The Athenian general Themistocles succeeded in luring the Persian navy into the narrow Straits of Salamis, where the huge number of Persian ships became disorganised, and were soundly beaten by the Allied fleet. The Allied victory at Salamis prevented a quick conclusion to the invasion, and fearing becoming trapped in Europe, Xerxes retreated to Asia leaving his general Mardonius to finish the conquest with the elite of the army. The following Spring, the Allies assembled the largest ever hoplite army, and marched north from the isthmus to confront Mardonius. At the ensuing Battle of Plataea, the Greek infantry again proved its superiority, inflicting a severe defeat on the Persians, killing Mardonius in the process. On the same day, across the Aegean Sea an Allied navy destroyed the remnants of the Persian navy at the Battle of Mycale. With this double defeat, the invasion was ended, and Persian power in the Aegean severely dented. The Greeks would now move over to the offensive, eventually expelling the Persians from Europe, the Aegean islands and Ionia before the war finally came to an end in 479 BC.
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Vastly expanded Persian territories establishing the which was the largest the world had ever seen?
Cyrus the Great; Persian Empire
Vastly expanded Persian territories establishing the which was the largest the world had ever seen.?
Cyrus the Great; Persian Empire
What Persian king expanded the empire to its largest?
Darius the Great.
Which king expanded the Persian Empire to it's largest area?
Darius the Great.
Which leader expanded the Persian Empire into the largest empire in the world?
Cyrus the Great.
Who expanded the Persian Empire to its largest size?
King Darius I (the Great) 522-486 BCE.
Which leader of the Persian Empire expanded it into the largest empire?
Cyrus the Great, added to by Cambyses and Darius.
Which of the new territories was the largest?
the largest one
What is the largest country that borders the Persian Gulf?
Saudi Arabia is the largest county that borders the Persian Gulf.
Who expanded the Persian empire to it's largest area?
Cyrus the Great
What leader made the Persian Empire the largest in the world to that time?
King Cyrus the Great. It was expanded by his successors King Cambyses II and King Darius I to included Libya, Egypt and today's Pakistan.
Is Turkey the largest country to border the Persian Gulf?
No. Turkey does not border the Persian Gulf and is actually smaller than Saudi Arabia, which is the largest country to border the Persian Gulf.
