Author: History with Cy

In the second of this two part series on the Achaemenid Persian Empire, we continue with Darius the Great’s son, Xerxes and some of the main events of the Greco-Persian wars, and then follow the lives of his successors up to Darius III and the fall of the Achaemenid Empire with its conquest by Alexander of Macedonia, a.k.a. Alexander the Great. Contents: 00:00 Intro and Recap 01:33 Xerxes (486-465 BC) 03:43 Xerxes Invades Greece 08:47 Battle of Thermopylae 11:18 Battle of Salamis 12:40 Battle of Plataea 14:40 Xerxes after Greece 18:26 Artaxerxes I (465-424 BC) 25:57 Darius II (424-404 BC)…