Down1
26th April 2017, 05:43 PM
Nice one.
Pretty long though.
he seeds of Western civilization could well be argued to have been sown on the plain of Marathon on September 12, 490 BC, when an Athenian army of some 10,000 men overcame the odds to triumph over a numerically and tactically superior Persian force. This critical engagement not only saved Athens, Greece and large parts of Europe from certain Persian expansion, but also set in motion a whole cascade of events which altered the course of human history forever.
Victory at Marathon not only preserved the fledgling democracy of Athens; it also greatly catalyzed the Greco-Persian conflict, which in turn stimulated the rise of the Golden Age of Greece, the destruction of the Persian Empire, and the later ascendancy of Greco-Roman culture – all of which were of pivotal importance in the rise for European and Western civilization.
Moreover, the East-West cultural divide underscored by this critical battle of antiquity is still very much with us to this day.
http://www.renegadetribune.com/marathon-athenians-defeated-superior-persian-force/
Pretty long though.
he seeds of Western civilization could well be argued to have been sown on the plain of Marathon on September 12, 490 BC, when an Athenian army of some 10,000 men overcame the odds to triumph over a numerically and tactically superior Persian force. This critical engagement not only saved Athens, Greece and large parts of Europe from certain Persian expansion, but also set in motion a whole cascade of events which altered the course of human history forever.
Victory at Marathon not only preserved the fledgling democracy of Athens; it also greatly catalyzed the Greco-Persian conflict, which in turn stimulated the rise of the Golden Age of Greece, the destruction of the Persian Empire, and the later ascendancy of Greco-Roman culture – all of which were of pivotal importance in the rise for European and Western civilization.
Moreover, the East-West cultural divide underscored by this critical battle of antiquity is still very much with us to this day.
http://www.renegadetribune.com/marathon-athenians-defeated-superior-persian-force/