Xerxes

Smarter in sixty minutes. Get smarter in just 60 minutes with in60Learning. Concise and elegantly written non-fiction books and audiobooks help you learn the core subject matter in 20% of the time that it takes to read a typical book. Life is short, so explore a multitude of fascinating historical, biographical, scientific, political, and financial topics in only an hour each. Xerxes the Great is best known by people today for his enemy role in the hit film 300. Not only does the depiction in that film look nothing like him, it also ignores his legacy of great works and leadership within Persia itself. Xerxes would radically expand the Persian empire and managed to keep peace despite uprisings and infighting between the varied cultures that fell under his rule. His memory in the western world would be forever tarnished, however, after the Greeks manage to successfully push back his invasion in 480 B. C. E. Learning about the life of this powerful man reveals how different the modern world could have been if Greece had become part of Persia.