History ArtisticLicenseHistory / AncientWarsSparta

* In ''Fate of Hellas'', the Macedonian light troop is the sarissaphore, which in real life was the '''heaviest''' kind of footsoldier the Macedonian army had. It also calls its heavy troops "hoplites", a term that didn't apply to Macedonian phalangites because they had abandoned the ''hoplon'' for a smaller shield named telamon or Macedonian pelta.

* Although this can be pardoned as AcceptableBreaksFromReality to have him as a hero unit in the game, in real life Xerxes wasn't a FrontlineGeneral and most definitely would have not fought with a {{BFS}} of all things. The same goes for his adviser Artabanus.

* The game calls the Spartan light troops "peltasts", a term that was only used in Thrace and Paeonia before UsefulNotes/ThePeloponnesianWar. The correct name for their Spartan equivalent at the time would have been "psiloi". Ironically, the UsefulNotes/GrecoPersianWars did see real peltasts in action, but those were Thracian mercenaries working for the ''Persians''.
* Similar to the previous point, the term "Spartiate" is used in the game as a sort of middle infantry between peltasts and hoplites. In real life, the name had nothing to do with the military field; it was a term for the upper class citizens of Sparta, who in fact were the ones who fought as hoplites in times of war.

* The usage of the "Medjay" term is another anachronism, as the word fell in disuse after 1077 BC.

* The game calls the Spartan light troops "peltasts", a term that was only used in Thrace and Paeonia before UsefulNotes/ThePeloponnesianWar. The correct name for their Spartan equivalent at the time would have been "psiloi". Ironically, the Greco-Persian Wars did see real peltasts in action, but those were Thracian mercenaries working for the ''Persians''.

* Persian noblemen can be equipped with DualWielding sabers, which has no historical basis and seems to be just a ShoutOut to the Immortals in ''Film/ThreeHundred'' (although, ironically, this game's version of the Persian Immortals cannot be equipped that way).

* Among its weapons, the Egyptian civilization has the classical khopesh, which historically fell out of use around 700 years earlier. This is probably because, as in EveryJapaneseSwordIsAKatana, it seems you cannot show ancient Egyptians without that kind of sword in pop culture.

* Khabash wasn't a former slave as claimed by the game's sequel, but the governor of Sais (it's even entertained he might have been a Persian satrap GoneNative), and certainly wasn't killed by Alexander, whom Khabash outlived.
* ''Fate of Hellas'' bizarrely puts Taxiles, a friendly Indian king that allied with Alexander, in the place of Porus, an Indian king who was enemy to Taxiles and fought Alexander.

* ''Fate of Hellas'' also has the Egyptian Khabash revolting against Alexander the Great, when in real life he revolted against the Persian Empire, which happened a few years before Alexander arrived to Egypt. We don't know how the relationship between Alexander and Khabash went, but the latter was seemingly in good terms with Ptolemy, the Macedonian ruler of Egypt, after Alexander's death.

* ''Fate of Hellas'' calls "Cathai" to the region of India governed by Taxiles, which historically was the Punjab. Cathai, as odd of a choice as it sounds, was a medieval name given by Muslims to China.

* The game calls the Spartan light troops "peltasts", a term that was only used in Thrace and Paeonia before UsefulNotes/ThePeloponnesianWar. The correct name for their Spartan equivalent at the time would have been ''psiloi''. Ironically, the Greco-Persian Wars did see real peltasts in action, but those were Thracian mercenaries working for the ''Persians''.

* Persian warriors can be equipped with DualWielding sabers, which has no historical basis and seems to be just a ShoutOut to the Immortals in ''Film/ThreeHundred'' (although, ironically, this game's version of the Persian Immortals cannot be equipped that way).

* The game makes the strange choice of having Miltiades as the Athenian commander at the time of the Battle of Thermopylae, as the real Miltiades had been dead for nine years by that point. At the time the game is set in, Athens was actually led by Themistocles, who was the main driving force behind the Greek resistance against Xerxes in the first place.

* The game portrays Xerxes being forced to travel to India and drown a rebellion against the Achaemenid Empire. Nothing of this happened in real life; he had to crush some rebellions to consolidate his power, but not in India.
* The timeline of the game places Inaros' rebellion as happening at the same time as Xerxes' invasion of Greece, when in real life ''twenty whole years'' separated the two conflicts. In fact, Xerxes himself had been dead and buried for five years when Inaros revolted against the Persian empire, which by then was ruled by Xerxes' son Artaxerxes.
* The real Leonidas never set foot on Egypt, while his version from the games does in order to help Inaros in Sais. This effectively conflates Leonidas and Sparta with Athens and its statesman Cimon, who did deploy in Egypt to help the rebellion. The game also changes the detail that this Greek force was completely defeated and forced to return to Greece.

* In the game, Demaratus and Hydarnes die in the Battle of Thermopylae. In real life, Hydarnes survived to the war and returned safely to Persia, while Demaratus' fate is unknown, with some authors dating his death as an entire year later.

* The game calls the Spartan light troops "peltasts", a term that was only used in Thrace and Paeonia before the UsefulNotes/ThePeloponnesianWar. The correct name for their Spartan equivalent would have been ''psiloi''. Ironically, the Greco-Persian Wars did see real peltasts in action, but those were Thracian mercenaries working for the ''Persians''.
* Similar to the previous point, the term "Spartiate" is used in the game as a sort of middle infantry between peltasts and hoplites. In real life, the name had nothing to do with the military field; it was a term for the upper class citizens of Sparta, who in fact composed the hoplitic army in times of war.

* The game makes a strange choice by having Miltiades as the Athenian commander at the time of the Battle of Thermopylae, as the real Miltiades died nine years before that point. By the time the game is set in, Athens was actually led by Themistocles, who was the main driving force behind the Greek resistance against Xerxes in the first place.

* Wedjahor is apparently meant to be the historical Wedjahor-Resne, an Egyptian nobleman that betrayed his country for the Achaemenid Empire, but the latter died in 515, while this is alive several decades later.

* The timeline of the game places Inaros' rebellion as happening at the same time as Xerxes' invasion of Greece, when in real life ''twenty whole years'' separated the two conflicts. In fact, Xerxes had been dead and buried for five years when Inaros revolted against the Persian empire, which by then was ruled by Xerxes' son Artaxerxes.

* Although this can be pardoned as AcceptableBreaksFromReality to have him as a hero unit in the game, in real life Xerxes didn't fight himself in the battlefield, especially with a {{BFS}} of all things. The same goes for his adviser Artabanus.

* Demaratus fights with a large labrys, a weapon that was largely used with ceremonial purposes.
* Ahmose wears a royal ''nemes'' crown that should have not been worn by anyone other than a pharaoh. Inaros, for his part, wears a rather bizarre cobra hood-like headdress that seems out of the 2000 ''Series/FrankHerbertsDune'' miniseries.
* Some of the weapons, like the Persian tri-dagger, are definitely made up.
* The timeline of the game places Inaros' rebellion as happening at the same time as Xerxes' invasion of Greece, when in real life ''twenty whole years'' separated the two conflicts. In fact, Xerxes had been dead and buried for five years when Inaros revolted against the Persian empire, which by then was ruled by Xerxes' son Artaxerxes.
* The real Leonidas never set foot on Egypt, while his version from the games does in order to help Inaros in Sais. This effectively conflates Leonidas and Sparta with Athens and its statesman Cimon, who did deploy in Egypt to help the rebellion. The game also omits the detail that this Greek force was completely defeated and forced to return to Greece.
* The game makes a strange choice by having Miltiades as the Athenian commander at the time of the Battle of Thermopylae, as the real Miltiades died nine years before. By the time the game is set in, Athens was actually led by Themistocles, who was the main driving force behind the Greek resistance against Xerxes in the first place. The game also follows the pop culture trend started by ''Film/ThreeHundred'' where the Spartans were basically alone in Thermopylae and had to sacrifice themselves to move Greece to act.

* In the game, Demaratus and Hydarnes die in the Battle of Thermopylae. In real life, Hydarnes survived to the war and returned safely to Persia, while Demaratus' fate is unknown, with some authors dating his death as an entire year later.
* Shabaka lived in the 8th century, not in the 5th. Oddly, the game itself has a preface commenting Shabaka would eventually become a pharaoh of the XXV dynasty, apparently hoping the players are not knowledgeable enough to know that this would require Shabaka to travel 240 years back in time.
* Meritaton's name is anachronistic, as it contains the name of the god Aten, who fell out of favor in Egypt after the scandalous reign of Akhenaten almost a millennium earlier.
* The usage of the "Medjay" term is another anachronism, as the word fell in disuse after 1077 BC.

* Mardonius has an attack named Perseus Arrow. Why a Persian would use the name of a Greek mythological hero (unless, you know, they made a flimsy Persian-Perseus association) is never answered.