It was fought to protect the Spartan and Greek homeland from the invading Persian Empire.
The Battle of Thermopylae was fought between a Greek confederation of soldiers and the armies of the Persian Empire. The Greeks were led by a contingent of elite Spartans aided by thousands of slaves and other Greek soldiers.
Thermopylae!
An expeditionary force from the Persian Empire and the combined armies of Athens and its ally Plataia.
The spartans fought the persain horde of barbarains of five thousand men
It was fought to protect the Spartan and Greek homeland from the invading Persian Empire.
The Battle of Thermopylae was fought between a Greek confederation of soldiers and the armies of the Persian Empire. The Greeks were led by a contingent of elite Spartans aided by thousands of slaves and other Greek soldiers.
They were all part of the Persian attempt to subdue troubles to its empire from the city-states of mainland Greece.
some people like me would say the battle of Thermopylae between the greek empire(Spartans) with king leonidos and his 300 men. Against the Persian army lead by Xerxes of around 10,000 troops which eventually after carnage won the battle.
The Spartans combined with the other southern Greek states to repel a Persian invasion designed to incorporate mainland Greece within the Persian empire in 480-479 BCE.It is often called today the Persian War, however the Greeks fought the Persians off and on over two hundred years.
Thermopylae!
The Spartans and the Persians
The Battle of Thermopylae is the historical name for the battle where the 300 Spartans fought.
An expeditionary force from the Persian Empire and the combined armies of Athens and its ally Plataia.
The spartans fought the persain horde of barbarains of five thousand men
King Leonidus was the ruler of the Spartans. He fought in the battle between the 300 Spartans and the Persians
No. It defeated a Persian expeditionary force. Athens and Sparta were then friends. Pheidippides ran to Sparta to summon them to help, but the Spartans didn't arrive in time before the battle was fought.