Leonidas' decision to disobey the Council and march forward to the Hot Gates and vanquish the Persian army was founded in his determination not to surrender Sparta to Xerxes. When he presented his battle plan to the council and was given no as an answer. Despite his anger he doesn't want to disobey the Ephors, his wife persuades him to rethink his strategy and take 300 soldiers as his personal guard to battle along with the Greeks at the Hot Gates and reduce the Persian's army military capacity.
An ancient religion because there is a religion that uses the caste system
The Great Wall is a fortificated East-to-West line which historically has delimited the Chinese Northern border. Its primary purpouse was to defend the Chinese territory against the invasions and quick raids organized by the nomadic people from the Eurasian Steppe lands, located more to the North.
But rather than as a fixed border, it should be regarded as a transition zone which establishes a distinction between two different lifestyles, even nowadays: the farmer regions in the South with sedentary ways of life and the pasture lands in the North, where its inhabitants have nomadic lifestyles and work mainly in animal husbandry activities.
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