CIVILIZATION
PERSIAN
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Question
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Darius III
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Leonidas
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Xerxes II
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Xerxes I
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Detailed explanation-1: -A Persian army led by Xerxes I defeated Greek forces led by the Spartan king Leonidas in the Battle of Thermopylae.
Detailed explanation-2: -Xerxes himself went down to inspect the battlefield. He cut off the head of Leonidas and impaled it on a spear for his army to see. The Spartans were mortal and could be killed, but their last stand had given the Persians a taste of what would come. Greece was not a pushover.
Detailed explanation-3: -He was succeeded by his son, King Pleistarchus. Leonidas had a notable role in the Second Greco-Persian War, leading the allied Greek forces to a last stand at the Battle of Thermopylae (480 BC) while attempting to defend the pass from the invading Persian army.
Detailed explanation-4: -Leonidas, (died 480 bc, Thermopylae, Locris [Greece]), Spartan king whose stand against the invading Persian army at the pass of Thermopylae in central Greece is one of the enduring tales of Greek heroism, invoked throughout Western history as the epitome of bravery exhibited against overwhelming odds.