TheCollector on MSN5 个月
Battle of the Persian Gate: An Achaemenid Thermopylae, 330 BCE
Cyrus the Great (r.550-530 BCE), founder of the Achaemenid Empire captured it around 540-539 BCE, and under his son Cambyses ...
La Brújula Verde10 天
Three Brothers-in-Law Dominated the Near East in the 6th Century BC, Until Cyrus the Great ...
BC, the Near East was dominated by three powerful kingdoms: the Median Empire of Astyages, the Neo-Babylonian Empire of ...
The American Conservative4 年
The Trump Administration’s Weird Cyrus the Great Fixation
The legacy of the Achaemenid kings — the powerful ... Who writes these tweets for him? The legacy of Cyrus the Great was a regional empire. Rhetoric abt the supposed revival of that very empire ...
CNN on MSN15 天
How Alexander the Great redrew the map of the world
The Persian king had conquered Persia 200 years earlier, so when Alexander came to conquer the Middle East he had to conquer ...