Original sentence: Other historians point out that in 490 BC Darius the Great sent Datis and Artaphernes in a campaign to punish Athens and Eretria (that ended in the battle of Marathon), a minor campaign by Persian standards, a force of 600 triremes, that were manned by 138,000 troops, not including forces in support and dedicated transport ships.Some modern historinas claim that it was nearly impossibile of feeding a million men in one place using ancient logistical methods and that among ancient writers to vastly inflate the size of Persian armies, and claim there were fewer than 100,000 Persian troops.Thus numbers given by ancient sources for the Persian army in Gaugamela are not beyond the realm of possible, especially since Darius had two years gather them and did not need to transport them over distances as great as those of the Greco-Persian Wars of the previous century, and thus other historians accept this
Edited sentence: It should be noted that in 490 BC Darius the Great sent Datis and Artaphernes in a campaign to punish Athens and Eretria (that ended in the battle of Marathon), a minor campaign by Persian standards, a force of 600 triremes, that were manned by 138,000 troops, not including forces in support and dedicated transport ships.Some modern historinas claim that it was nearly impossibile of feeding a million men in one place using ancient logistical methods and that among ancient writers to vastly inflate the size of Persian armies, and claim there were fewere than 100,000 Persian troops.Thus numbers given by ancient sources are not beyond the realm of possible, especially since Darius had two years gather them and did not need to transport them over distances as great as those of the Greco-Persian Wars of the previous century, and thus other historians accept this