The incredible story of Alexander the Great and his conquest of the known world is brought to life with animated maps, images ...

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In the end, this small band of POWs and deserters, whose strength was seen by Leon Trotsky as the chief threat to Soviet rule, helped destroy the Austro-Hungarian Empire and found Czecho-Slovakia.

The showdown between the ancient Greek city states and the Achaemenid Empire of ... and his son, Xerxes I, took over his work. By 481 BC, the army building was complete, and Xerxes began the march ...

The Achaemenid kings of Persia ruled between the sixth and fourth centuries B.C., but much of what we know about them today comes from Greek rather than Persian sources. The various Greek authors ...