Question

Describe how Xerxes' army despite outnumbering the Greeks was defeated at Thermopylae in the first combat? from the chapter ' The Last Stand at Thermopylae​

Answer 1

Xerxes' defeat was a turning point in history because it ensured that Greek culture could continue to thrive in the west. A war (around 1200 B.C.), in which an army lead by Mycenaean kings attacked the city of Troy in Anatolia.

Xerxes decided that the Hellespont would be bridged to allow his army to cross to Europe, and that a canal should be dug across the isthmus of Mount Athos (rounding which headland, a Persian fleet had been destroyed in 492 BC).