DZ Season 063 Part 10. 300 Spartans and All That –Xerxes Allies with Carthage to Destroy All Greek Colonies.
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Sometimes we think of these ancient peoples that I’m talking about, like Xerxes the ruler of the Persian Empire, who lived in this ancient, primitive world, as not being as sophisticated as we are. But that might not be true.
Was this campaign to invade Greece, just a part of his strategic plan to destroy the entire Greek world and its colonies including in Sicily? So was Xerxes pursuing a Grand Strategy to win his jewel of taking over all of Europe as well as Greece. As he told his nobles in Part 2 of this series:
if we crush the Athenians and their neighbours who dwell in the land of Pelops the Phrygian, we shall so extend the empire of Persia that its boundaries will be God's own sky, so that the sun will not look down upon any land beyond the boundaries of what is ours. With your help I shall pass through Europe from end to end and make it all one country. For if what I am told is true, there is not a city or nation in the world which will be able to withstand us, once these are out of the way.
Was the war begun by Xerxes invasion of Greece, truly the first world war?
Tag words: Xerxes; Persian Empire; Greek world; Grand Strategy; Athenians; Gelon; tyrant of Syracuse; Spartans; Hamilcar; Carthage; Salamis; John Marincola; Herodotus; The Histories; Diodorus Siculus; JFC Fuller; Decisive Battles of the Western World Volume 1; the Magi; Artachaees;
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