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- some 50 million people and the largest empire that the world had known ... [[Image:Achaemenid Empire.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Achaemenid empire ...12 KB (1,863 words) - 22:19, 25 January 2024
- an Iranian people and a province of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, the eighteenth ... between 1000 and 500 B.C.E.. The Achaemenid empire conquered the area ...15 KB (2,182 words) - 15:07, 27 April 2023
- In 330 B.C.E., the Achaemenid Empire established the first Persian ... No written document remains from the era before the Persian Empire ...14 KB (2,162 words) - 00:43, 24 November 2022
- In 547 B.C.E., the Lydians attacked the Achaemenid Empire. During ... At the end of Cyrus' rule, the Achaemenid Empire stretched from Asia ...22 KB (3,584 words) - 07:28, 12 January 2024
- of the second Iranian dynasty, the Achaemenid Empire, situated some 70 km ... central city of the ever expanding Persian empire, besieged and destroyed by ...19 KB (3,001 words) - 17:58, 26 March 2023
- in ancient inscriptions dating back to Achaemenid Persia. The Behistun inscription ... seventh satrapies (upper Indus) of the Achaemenid Empire. ...23 KB (3,513 words) - 18:46, 4 December 2023
- , and must be ascribed to the age of the Achaemenid princes. ... *Curtis, J., and N. Tallis. 2005. Forgotten Empire: The World of Ancient ...9 KB (1,297 words) - 06:55, 18 April 2024
- could not import grain or communicate with its empire without control of the sea. Athen's defeat resulted in the establishment of a Spartan-sponsored ...9 KB (1,437 words) - 11:30, 20 September 2023
- , the founder and ruler of the Persian Empire, and inscribed in Babylonian ... * Dandamaev, Mohammad. A Political History of the Achaemenid Empire ...15 KB (2,435 words) - 02:16, 6 July 2023
- Persian mythology, in particular during the Achaemenid Empire, griffins or Homa were used widely as statues and symbols in palaces. Homa also had a special ...10 KB (1,536 words) - 19:20, 31 January 2023
- was the last king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, reigning from 556-539 B ... reign marks the beginning of the Persian Empire and the end of the Babylonian ...17 KB (2,715 words) - 22:59, 10 November 2022
- intermarried with their overlords, the Achaemenid Persians. After the defeat ... 428, briefly being annexed to the Roman Empire by Trajan from 114 to 118 ...13 KB (1,990 words) - 17:03, 10 November 2022
- was the national religion of the Sassanid Empire of Persia; it is predominantly ... of Zoroaster living in the court of an Achaemenid satrap such as Vishtaspa ...25 KB (3,791 words) - 06:11, 13 June 2023
- the first Christian nation. The Roman Empire did not adopt Christianity ... sphere of influence of the Roman Empire ended the peace since the ...18 KB (2,729 words) - 03:59, 15 August 2023
- Avestan modifications) during the Achaemenid Empire (559–330 B.C.E.) ... when Alexander the Great overtook the Achaemenid Empire in 330 B.C.E. According ...42 KB (6,394 words) - 06:12, 13 June 2023
- century B.C.E. It became the center of empire under Hammurabi (c. 1780 ... In the Judeo-Christian tradition, the neo-Babylonian empire ruler ...19 KB (2,994 words) - 05:24, 26 August 2023
- the exiles returned to Judea during the Achaemenid Persian Empire (550–330 ... prey to the ambition of the growing Roman Empire. In 63 B.C.E., the military ...16 KB (2,452 words) - 11:56, 29 January 2024
- in 1365, and became the capital of the empire of Timur, during which time ... capital of the Sogdian satrapy under the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia when ...15 KB (2,116 words) - 01:14, 21 April 2023
- which remained long after the fall of the Roman empire Philip DeArmond ... Contact between the Greco-Roman Empire had been far more extensive ...21 KB (3,121 words) - 04:51, 16 December 2022
- phase, around 550 B.C.E. under the Achaemenid dynasty of the Persian ... *MacMullen, Ramsay. Christianizing the Roman Empire: A.D. 100-400 ...16 KB (2,567 words) - 05:37, 27 February 2023
