100,000 soldiers

>>331762

Gives the idea of alot.

>>331762
It means a gorrillion soldiers

Herodotus started the meme of overestimating the enemy forces whilst underestimating the Greeks. Eventually people decided to just overestimate both sides.

>>331762
They didn't use 100,000 literally, they used it for "fucking many"

>>331762
Didn't Xerxes have some 5 million men according to Herodotus?

>dem overinflated arab sources during the byzantine/sassanid conquest

>>332140
Herodotus was the original shitposter baiter troll.

>>331762
ONE
HUNDRED
GORILLION
_____

>>332140
Nah it was like 1.5 mil

>>332140
yes
>150,000 native persians/medes
>200,000 from the tribes of ethiopia and kush
>350,000 mesopotamians
>75,000 support archers from Egypt
>145,000 israelites and canaanites
>450,000 marines and hoplites from Ionia and Phoencia
>3.5 million giant gold digging ants from India

>>332174
Even with realistic numbers they were still outnumbered

>>332300
How considering both Empires suffered a plague that pretty much killed over 50 million people inbetween them right before the invasion while they have been fighting on and off for the last centuries?