Xerxes Persia 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.
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Buddhism, Jainism, Confucianism, Taoism, and Zoroastrianism were all formed in the 6th century BC. That century also gave us Pythagoras the philosopher, Xerxes I of Persia, and Sun Tzu, the author of "The Art of War".
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Xerxes, King of Persia, made his men whip the water of Hellespont because it was disobeying him
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After a river surge destroyed his bridge, Xerxes of Persia ordered his men to flog and lash the river, and call it names
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Herodotus purports that Xerxes I of Persia dealt with the destruction of two pontoon bridges in a storm by having his men shout at the water while whipping it and branding it with irons
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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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The Biblical Queen Esther, heroine of the Book of Esther, was married to King Xerxes I of Persia, the infamous "villain" of the movie 300.
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After his first pontoon bridge to cross Hellespont was ruined by a storm, Xerxes I of Persia beheaded the builders and punished for Hellespont, by throwing fetters into the strait, whipping it 300 times and branding it with red-hot irons as his soldiers shouted. The next bridge worked.
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Xerxes I of Persia ordered the Hellespont (the strait itself) Chained and whipped three hundred times because a storm destroyed the bridge.
