How Sparta’s 5,000 Elite Warriors Avenged the 300 Spartans and King Leonidas

the greek army has been betrayed.

twenty thousand persians advance along a mountain path to surround the pass and attack the rear. one hundred greeks,

led by three hundred spartans and king leonidas, stay behind to cover the retreat of the main forces.

the spartans die in combat. the head of leonidas is nailed to a stake.

the persian army of two hundred thousand men enters greece. what more cities? and profanes temples.

sparta will send five thousand elite warriors after the culprits, the largest army that the warrior state has ever gathered.

at the beginning of the fifth century before christ, there existed on earth an empire like history had never seen,

the persian empire. for that moment, the persians had absorbed everything that existed before them. babylon, egypt,

phoenicia, lydia, media and more than a dozen kingdoms. all were conquered and converted into provinces of a single empire.

all the great powers of the east remained within the persian borders. the empire extended from the indus river, in the east,

to the aegean sea, in the west, from the nile in the south to the caucasus, in the north.

the wealth of the persian king and the magnitude of his power defied imagination.

every year tons of gold and silver arrived at the capitals from all corners of the empire. india sent gold sand, arabia,

perfumes and incense. ethiopia, ivory, babylon, dates and silver, phoenicia, purple and silver coins.

the annual income of the king exceeded thirty times the annual budget of all greece.

and the army that had conquered all that was the best on earth. its core was the ten thousand immortals,

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