480 Bc facts
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In 480 BC, King Xerxes I of Persia built bridges to invade Greece. But a storm destroyed these bridges. Enraged, King Xerxes threw chains in the sea, whipped the sea 300 times and burned it with red-hot irons as his men shouted at the water. The next bridge built was not destroyed.
In 480 BC, the Persians' bridges were destroyed by storms as they invaded Greece. King Xerxes then ordered his men to give the sea three hundred whip lashes, to throw fetters into it and to burn it with red hot irons. Meanwhile, the punishers were to shout "you are a turbid and briny river"
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In 480 BC, when the Persians invaded Greece, the Greek army was extremely outnumbered due to many men wanting to go to the Olympic Games
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In 480 BC, King Xerxes of Persia demanded the surrender of the Spartans during the battle of Thermopylae. He promised to show them mercy if they surrendered their weapons. The Spartan Leader, King Leonidas I, responded "Molon labe" - "Come and take them."
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Esther in the Old Testament was married to the King Xerxes who invaded Greece in 480 BC, and was featured in "300."
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In 480 BC nearly half of the world population lived in the First Persian Empire
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The Victoria Clipper (a famous 35mph, 480 ton ship that ferries between Seattle and Victoria, BC) was stolen out of port by a sex offender who ripped his GPS bracelet off.
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Syracuse in Sicily had by 480 BC built up the strongest army in Greece and defeated the Carthaginians. In the other event, Carthage rather than Rome may have been remembered by history as the greatest power in the ancient world.
