| − | [In 480 BC Persian [[King Xerxes]] was planning to carry out his father's intentions to conquer [[Greece]]. To do this he created a tremendous army consisting of 1,700,000 infantrymen, 80,000 in the cavalry, and the fleet had 1,207 ships in it with 200 men on each ship. Now at this time there was a Spartan oracle which said,
| + | In 480 BC Persian King [[Xerxes]] was planning to carry out his father's intentions to conquer [[Greece]]. To do this he created a tremendous army consisting of 1,700,000 infantrymen, 80,000 in the cavalry, and the fleet had 1,207 ships in it with 200 men on each ship. Now at this time there was a Spartan oracle which said, |
| | ''Hear your fate, O dwellers in [[Sparta]] of the wide spaces;'' | | ''Hear your fate, O dwellers in [[Sparta]] of the wide spaces;'' |