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To: CyberAnt

Persians were Zoroastrian not Muslim. Thanks for your genius analysis.


26 posted on 03/12/2007 3:34:39 PM PDT by freedom44
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To: freedom44
Persians were Zoroastrian not Muslim.

You are right, this battle took place more than one thousand years before Muhammad was born. However, if Greece had been part of the Persian Empire, it might have fallen to the Arabs when they conquered the Persians in the middle of the seventh century.

69 posted on 03/12/2007 8:57:10 PM PDT by reg45
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To: freedom44

Zoroastrianism was established as the state religion of Persia in c.226 BC.

Thermopylae happened 480 BC.


Thanks for your genius analysis.


84 posted on 03/13/2007 9:53:50 AM PDT by GeneralisimoFranciscoFranco
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