Ancient Athens and Persian Invasion

480 years before Christ,

the armies of Xerxes arrived in this city

and they put its sanctuaries to the torch.

Most Athenians had by then evacuated by ship to a nearby island.

But there was a handful of them that refused to leave their home.

So instead they barricaded themselves in the rocky fortress of the Acropolis

to fight an extraordinary last stand,

heaving massive stones down the cliffs

onto the Persian invaders

and holding the greatest empire of that age at bay

for days.

They were eventually overwhelmed.

Persians plundered the temples, they burned the shrines, they razed the

Acropolis to the ground.

But when the Athenians returned

بعضی ها

تاریخ رو

وارونه می نویسن

اختلاف بین

جمهوری اسلامی

و بین آمریکا رو

از ناحیه همین مرگ بر آمریکای شما می دونن

ساده لوحیه مسئله مسئله

اختلاف ذاتی است

ناسازگاری ذاتی است

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