Dan Carlin's Hardcore History

Show 56 - Kings of Kings

10.28.2015 - By Dan CarlinPlay

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Often relegated to the role of slavish cannon fodder for Sparta's spears, the Achaemenid Persian empire had a glorious heritage. Under a single king they created the greatest empire the world had ever seen.

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