A Shepherd Counted Persia's Army From a Hillside
Ancient Greece

A Shepherd Counted Persia's Army From a Hillside

An illiterate Persian peasant walked into a Persian governor's court in 499 BC and accidentally gave the Greeks the numbers they needed to save Western civilization.

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