For the spammer a bit of true history about persia - 300 Reviews

Leonidas led his 300 Spartan hoplites (elite troops selected because they had living sons back home) plus the allied Thespians and Thebans against Xerxes and his army of "10,000 Immortals." The Spartan-led forces fought this unstoppable Persian force to their deaths in order to block the pass long enough to keep Xerxes and his army occupied while the rest of the Greek army escaped. This led to the the Battle of Salamis. The Battle of Salamis was fought by various Greek city-states against the Persian Empire, which included Persians, Medes, Egyptians, Phoenicians, and Greeks under the leadership of Xerxes. It was a battle of a rich, giant empire against small, impoverished, disjointed, feuding political entities. It looked like a sure bet for the Persians, but it was precisely the strengths of the Persian Empire and its fleet that worked against it in the Battle of Salamis. Defending Greece were 350 Trieris vessels and 85000 man Army with Generals, Evribiades and Themistocles . The Persian conquerors were 1200 vessels and 300 000 man Army with Heads King Xerxes and General Ahemeno. The Battle started in the sunset of the 28 September 480 B.C. and kept on all thru that night. The historian Aschylos writes : ( At sunrise of the next day the ocean was covered by ship wrecks and all the beaches were covered by dead bodies, the Persians fled back to Asia and ended their conquest to conquer Greece and Europe.) So the Persians were not that great they never took over greece. Spartans wanted there independence and they won it after fighting for it as so many other small countries have after fight larger tyrants off. So there is your history lesson for the day. Sparta/Greece 1 Persia 0