"We weren't actually looking for a pot of gold." Archaeologists were recently excavating a house from the third century B.C.E ...
He killed 300 Chinese soldiers during this battle ... led by King Leonidas of Sparta, and the Persian Empire of Xerxes I over the course of three days, during the second Persian invasion of ...
The Greeks led by Alexander the Great defeated the Persian Empire in the 330s. The Greek foot soldier was called a hoplite. He fought with a long spear and used a large round shield for protection.