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98. Thermopylae & Salamis Episode 1
The Rest Is History
Xerxes and the Garden Centre
Persians are very into their gardens and xerxes absolutely loves it. He decides to invade greece in order to punish the spartans for murdering his assassins. But he also feels that, of course, when he is invading greece, he's doing it as the king of kings,. And therefore he can't do this kind of thing under cyrus. The Persians have been very mobile, essentially, kind of based on horses. They all have to come along - even if they're no good at fighting or anything like that. It means there aren't enough ships which will take them across the hellespont; so they've got to march across the casse
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