To: Dead Corpse
Xerces and Darius (his father) very rarely if ever pillaged a city. They offered a king is land, his religion, customs, and language. In return the king had to offer taxes to Xerces. Now the beauty of this was the the taxes Xerces imposed was lower than the taxes the king imposed on his own people. That's how Xerces was able to garner such a wide empire. Xerces went after Athens because the Greeks were fomenting trouble in Asia Minor.
36 posted on
03/28/2007 9:36:31 AM PDT by
USMMA_83
(Tantra is my fetish ;))
To: USMMA_83
Sparta later handed Greek Asia Minor to Persia without so much as a fond farewell. Xerxes could've stayed home and let Spartan hegemony do the dirty work for him.
41 posted on
03/28/2007 9:44:14 AM PDT by
Sols
To: USMMA_83
So Xerxes was really a "good guy" looking to lower taxes by invading Greece?
Okers...
44 posted on
03/28/2007 9:49:25 AM PDT by
Dead Corpse
(What would a free man do?)
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