Leonidas and his men had a glorious death and are still remembered in the many legends that have been told about them. On the seventh day, Leonidas sent out all of his Greek troops and stayed in the pass with his 300 Spartans, 900 helots, and 700 Thespians. On the fifth and sixth days of battle, Leonidas and his army killed roughly 20,000 Persian troops. The small assembled force of 300 Spartiates fought the battle for seven days, holding back the Persian army of thousands. Even though Xerxes’ army was said to be in the millions, many historians believe that the real figure was between 100,000 and 150,000. The 300 Spartan men fought valiantly but were completely outnumbered. He fought against Xerxes’ army with his small, yet powerful force. The third son of Anaxandridas II of Sparta, he is mostly remembered for his extraordinary performance at the Battle of Thermopylae. He conquered all these small kingdoms and created a central government and a unified central kingdom. Before Chandragupta, India was divided into small private kingdoms. Chandragupta is usually considered the first historical emperor of India. He reunited India into a single sub-continent. Chandragupta Maurya (340 BC–298 BC, India)Ĭhandragupta was the founder of the Maurya Empire and a Kshatriya varna ruler.
It was one of Tiglath-Pileser III’s most significant victories. Sarduri II had expanded his kingdom into Asia Minor, northwestern Mesopotamia, Iran, and Syria.
In the first year of his reign, he defeated the powerful kingdom of Urartu, ruled by Sarduri II. During his reign, he expanded the kingdom so that it dominated the Middle East for a century. Tiglath-Pileser III was the founder of the modern military force and a pioneer of the Assyrian Empire’s political system. Tiglath-Pileser III (Unknown–727 BC, Assyria)
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