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Battle Of Thermopylae Analysis

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There were 9,000 Persian soldiers at the Battle of Thermopylae. According to Document B written by Ctesias, who was alive at the time of the battle” claims that he has access to the Persian archives in 398 BCE. In these archives he discovered this quote “His general Artapanus, with 10,000 men fought at the battle of Thermopylae”. Since Ctesias was a Persian I believe that he might have exaggerated the number of soldiers to make his country look greater and stronger. Another piece of evidence is that in Document C ,written by Ernle Bradford, a secondary source, states that their wasn’t enough water to support the previously estimated 210,000 Persian Soldiers but their was enough water for 9,000 soldiers. Document D written by Rupert Matthews,
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