Mohammad Bagher MansourzadehZahra MassoudIslamic Azad University South Tehran Branch
A largely tolerant and merciful ruler, Persian king Cyrus the Great established one of the largest empires in world history.
The first great leader of the Akkadian Empire was Sargon, who became ruler around 2270 BC. The Akkadian Empire lasted from 2270 BC to 2083 BC. Its center was the city of Akkad. The empire collapsed due to the invasions by the Gutians. So, the Akkadian Empire lasted roughly 200 years. ...
The word mausoleum comes from King Mausolus, the Persian king of Caria, for whom the temple was built. He ruled in the fourth century A.D. in Halicarnassus, now modern-day Bodrum, Turkey. Mausolus held an unremarkable reign. He married his sister, Artemisia, who loved him very deeply. Sh...
There is one Roman ruler who looms very large in the history of Athens and that is Emperor Hadrian. Everywhere you go in the historic centre of the city, you are reminded of Hadrian. He loved Athens, and he loved to make things on an especially grand scale. Much of what he built in...
There is one Roman ruler who looms very large in the history of Athens and that is Emperor Hadrian. Everywhere you go in the historic centre of the city, you are reminded of Hadrian. He loved Athens, and he loved to make things on an especially grand scale. Much of what he built in...
had close connections. Or it may have longsightedly detected sympathy on the part of certain tyrants toward the growing power ofPersia: it is true that Sparta made some kind of diplomatic arrangement with the threatened Lydian power of the Anatolian rulerCroesusnot long before his defeat by Pers...
In ancient China, for example, the emperor Shih huang-ti, a member of the Ch’in dynasty and ruler of the first unified Chinese empire, ordered that historical records other than those of the Ch’in be destroyed so that history might be seen to begin with his dynasty. Repression of ...