The Athenians and the Persian Empire

This is the emergence, the beginning, the entrance on the historical stage of european military history. The first records we have ofeuropean armies are these armies we're talking about right now in greece. It's easy to get lost in the rabbit hole of mainstream historians but a lot of great people like yours truly will leave it behind. But what makes this period of ancient warfare so fascinating is that you see most variation between cultures and their influence over each other. We're very standardized if you look at modern day south america compare it to one from modern day Greece.