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Back to Search103. Alexander the Great: Defeating Darius
Season 5 Episode 8
Darius has already been defeated by Alexander. His wife has been kidnapped and has now died in childbirth. The omens sent by the gods bode ill for hi…
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102. Alexander the Great: The Conquest of Persia
Season 5 Episode 7
Darius III rules Persia and he has already demonstrated his heroism and skill in battle. The Empire itself, despite having been through a period of c…
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101. Salamis: Athens’ Revenge
Season 5 Episode 6
Leonidas and the 300 have been defeated at Thermopylae, leaving the way to Athens open. With the Persians advancing, many Athenians flee to the islan…
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100. Thermopylae: Xerxes, Leonidas, and the 300
Season 5 Episode 5
August 480BC; the might of the Persian army, roughly 100,000 soldiers, face down a few thousand Greeks, led by Leonidas and his brave 300. In light o…
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99. Marathon and the Rise of Greece
Season 5 Episode 4
Ionia has revolted and so Darius turns his gaze away from India and towards Greece. He crushes the rebellion, quelling all resistance. He then looks …
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98. Darius the Great: Ruling from India to the Mediterranean
Season 5 Episode 3
The Persian Empire that Darius took control of was already mighty and powerful; his predecessor, Cambyses, had conquered Egypt, further expanding its…
2 years, 5 months ago
97. Cyrus the Great: Building the First Superpower
Season 5 Episode 2
Born the son of a khan, a tribal chieftain, Cyrus would go on to be a titanic figure of world history. He took Persia from being a minor regional pow…
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96. Empires of Iran
Season 5 Episode 1
Persia was the first great superpower. The empire built by Cyrus, Darius, Xerxes and the rest of the Achaemenids stretched from India in the east to …
2 years, 5 months ago
95. The History of Putin's War
Season 4 Episode 24
Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine on 24th February 2022, but how did we get to this point? After the brutality of the Second World War, Ukraine was comp…
2 years, 5 months ago
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