Jiang says Persia could still have won through attrition after Salamis, but Mardonius repeated the mistake by fighting an unnecessary equal-force battle at Plataea.
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Plataea
Jiang says Persia could still have won through attrition after Salamis, but Mardonius repeated the mistake by fighting an unnecessary equal-force battle at Plataea.
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"How do you feel what, half, half a million people? Well you need to bring in supplies from Persia. But now your navy has..."
"But, Mardonis chose to fight the Greeks at the battle of Palatia. And here, it was about equal forces. 100,000 Greeks versus 100,000 Persians...."
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Greek history begins with geography, but it ends here as a theory of abundance, blocked status, and pointless war: when the line stops moving, the young do not overthrow the old order directly.
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