[USMMA_83]

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.

[Sols]

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.

[Dead Corpse]

So Xerxes was really a "good guy" looking to lower taxes by invading Greece?

Okers...