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Originally Posted by tkdgirl
There numbers were closer to a thousand, but when you're up against the numbers they were, yikes! Amazing to think they stopped the spread of Islam throughout Europe back then.
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There were about 4-5 g Greeks, but only 300 of them were Spartans of the warrior caste, and Persia wasn't conquered by Islam until 640 A.D. (C.E.) with the Battle of Nihawand, at Thermopylae they followed Zoroastrianism.
...but lets not start an off-topic argument. Go check it out.
Battle of Thermopylae - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Greco-Persian Wars: Battle of Thermopylae » HistoryNet - From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher