Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West (Holland, 2005)
550 BCE · Resource
Tom Holland's narrative history of the Greco-Persian Wars, culminating in Salamis and Plataea.
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Around 550 BCE
- Persian invasions of Greece (499 BCE)
- Ramayana (500 BCE)
- Gautama Buddha (563 BCE)
- Achaemenid Persian Empire (550 BCE)
- Confucius (551 BCE)
- Roman Republic founded (509 BCE)
- Cyrus the Great (600 BCE)
- Cleisthenes' reforms (508 BCE)
- Babylonian Captivity of the Jews (586 BCE)
- Socrates (469 BCE)