Battle of Thermopylae (en)

fought between an alliance of Greek city-states, led by King Leonidas of Sparta, and the Persian Empire of Xerxes I over the course of three days, during the second Persian invasion of Greece; the subject of the movie 300

gofer (en)

(noun) an employee whose duties include running errands; lackey

hoplite (en)

(noun) a heavily armed infantry soldier of ancient Greece

scad (en)

(noun) a large number or quantity

zaibatsu (en)

(noun) a Japanese term referring to industrial and financial business conglomerates in the Empire of Japan, whose influence and size allowed control over significant parts of the Japanese economy from the Meiji period until the end of World War II