King Xerxes crossed it in 480 B.C. to get to Europe
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Battle of Thermopylae - Wikipedia  The Battle of Thermopylae was fought between an alliance of Greek city-states, led by King Leonidas of Sparta, and the Persian Empire of Xerxes I over the ... Fearful of being trapped in Europe, Xerxes withdrew with much of his army to Asia .... By early 480 BC, the preparations were complete, and the army which Xerxes...
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Second Persian invasion of Greece - Wikipedia  The second Persian invasion of Greece (480479 BC) occurred during the Greco-Persian Wars, as King Xerxes I of ... The invasion began in spring 480 BC, when the Persian army crossed the Hellespont and marched ... to the invasion, and fearing becoming trapped in Europe, Xerxes retreated to Asia leaving his general...
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No. 2310 Xerxes and the Hellespont  Bridging the Hellespont: Xerxes makes war on the Dardenelles. ... Most go somewhere -- occasionally, they even span worlds. So it seemed in 480 BC when the Persians, under Xerxes, invaded Greece. ... But it was a formidable geographical and symbolic barrier between Asia and Europe. ... Xerxes' crossing...
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Xerxes I - Ancient History Encyclopedia  Xerxes I (ruled 486-465 BCE), also known as Xerxes the Great, was the king of the ... for the massive expedition he mounted against Greece in 480 BCE which, ... be released from the army so that he would have at least one son to care for him ... He assembled his forces to cross the Hellespont into Europe and, Herodotus...
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Xerxes' Pontoon Bridges - Wikipedia  Xerxes' Pontoon Bridges were constructed in 480 BC during the second Persian invasion of Greece upon the order of Xerxes I of Persia for the purpose of Xerxes' army to traverse the Hellespont (the present day Dardanelles) from Asia into Thrace, then also controlled by Persia (in the European part of modern Turkey). ... The crossing of the Hellespont took seven days and nights, the army using...
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Battle of Salamis - Wikipedia  The Battle of Salamis was a naval battle fought between an alliance of Greek city-states under Themistocles and the Persian Empire under King Xerxes in 480 BC ... These battles of Salamis and Plataea thus mark a turning point in the course .... By early 480 BC, the preparations were complete, and the army which Xerxes...
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Full text of ""Persian Fire"" - Internet Archive  In 480 BC, some forty years before Herodotus began his history, Xerxes, the ..... gardens and canals, the kings of Assyria had always seen it as their duty to .... 7 Not that the new king of Media, Astyages, had any intention of hanging up his saddle. .... Cyrus had no intention of destroying the most strategically sited city in the...
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Leif Eiriksson (Erikson) | SVM Shipping Blog  Oct 21, 2012 ... Christopher Columbus was not the first European to discover the ... Columbus didn't reach the New World until 1492, 500 years after Leif Eiriksson's arrival in 1001 AD. ... The Saga of Eric the Red relates that he set sail for Norway in 999, ... and the constant need of land to farm, bought Bjarni's ship and set...
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Jeopary Questions page 1135 - "F" TROOP - TriviaBistro.com  EARLY MAN: Around 11,000 B.C. people in Greece sailed over 70 miles to Melos to get this volcanic glass for tools  COMMON BONDS: Months, eggs, dirty title...
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Exploration and Discovery - Facts for Now - Scholastic  About 600 B.C., Phoenician ships may have sailed from the coast of the Red Sea all ... Around 330 B.C., Pytheas, an explorer and geographer, became the first Greek to ... In building and maintaining their far-flung empire, however, some Romans did ... before the Vikings did and almost a thousand years before Columbus.
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Xerxes I - Wikipedia  Xerxes I called Xerxes the Great, was the fourth king of kings of the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia. He ruled from 486 BC until his assassination in 465 BC at the hands of Artabanus, the commander of the royal bodyguard. Xerxes I is most likely the Persian king identified as Ahasuerus (Hebrew ... When Darius decided to leave (487-486 BC), Darius prepared his tomb at...
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jeopardy/1085_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HUN | The Huns tried to extend west into the area then called this & "Frank"ly were beaten there in 451 | Gaul. right: Wrong: Triple...
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CHAPTER - 5 Lehi Was Not Alone - Book of Mormon Evidences ...  Sep 21, 2009 ... The book helped support some claims made in the Book of Mormon, although I am ... that all of these people reached the New World years before Columbus. ... By 600 B.C., the Phoenicians were building ships that could carry 50 to ... Around 450 B.C., the Carthaginian king, Hanno, sailed with a fleet of 60...
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Christopher Columbus - Exploration - HISTORY.com  The explorer Christopher Columbus made four trips across the Atlantic Ocean ... was not the first person to propose that a person could reach Asia by sailing west from Europe. ... When he was still a teenager, he got a job on a merchant ship.
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Xerxes I | king of Persia | Britannica.com  Jun 18, 2015 ... Persian king (486465 bce), the son and successor of Darius I. He is best known for his massive invasion of Greece from ... Xerxes I, Old Persian Khshayarsha, byname Xerxes the Great (born c. .... Name the African Battle.
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J! Archive - Show #4086, aired 2002-05-13  May 13, 2002 ... Born in Corfu in 1921, he's a great grandson of the Danish king Christian IX ... This son of the Black Prince became king in 1377 & got his own Shakespeare play somewhat later .... Scholars label Old Persian royal inscriptions X for Xerxes, C for Cyrus & D for him...
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The Magic and Mystery of The Orient ExpressOIC Moments - OIC ...  May 5, 2014 ... In 1883, he launched The Orient Express, from Paris to Istanbul ... The Orient Express was called the train of kings and the king of trains for good reason. ... Even though the original Orient Express is no longer running, you...
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Xerxes I - Wikipedia  Xerxes I called Xerxes the Great, was the fourth king of kings of the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia. He ruled from 486 BC until his assassination in 465 BC at the hands of Artabanus, the commander of the royal bodyguard. Xerxes I is most likely the Persian king identified as Ahasuerus (Hebrew ... Reign, 486465 BC.
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Xerxes' Pontoon Bridges - Wikipedia  Xerxes' Pontoon Bridges were constructed in 480 BC during the second Persian invasion of Greece upon the order of Xerxes I ... Xerxes was enraged and had those responsible for building the bridges beheaded. .... Ships in the center of the strait would thus have had to use anchor ropes with a length of several hundred...
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History of Oceanography  A. Ancient people living along the coast must have been very curious about the regions underneath the ... Around 10000 years ago western Europe was colonized by peoples from Africa who must have ... Herodotus claims that the Phoenicians had circumnavigated Africa by 600 B.C. fully 2000 years before the Portuguese.
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Xerxes I - Wikipedia  Xerxes I called Xerxes the Great, was the fourth king of kings of the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia. He ruled from 486 BC until his assassination in 465 BC at the hands of ... While Darius was preparing for another war against Greece, a revolt spurred in Egypt in 486 BC .... The famous aria "Ombra mai f" opens the opera.