CIVILIZATION
PERSIAN
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Question
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They celebrated victory
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They held a feast
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They burned the city
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They teamed up for a war
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Acropolis was razed, and the Old Temple of Athena and the Older Parthenon destroyed: Those Persians who had come up first betook themselves to the gates, which they opened, and slew the suppliants; and when they had laid all the Athenians low, they plundered the temple and burnt the whole of the acropolis.
Detailed explanation-2: -One of five capital cities and for almost two hundred years the symbol of Persia’s might, Persepolis was sacked and burned by Alexander the Great in 330 BC. One hundred and twenty thousand talents of gold and silver were taken (more than thirty-three hundred tons) (Diodorus, XVII.
Detailed explanation-3: -In September Xerxes, joined by many Greeks north of Attica, burned Athens.