In his conquest Alexander skillfully exploited aspirations of the elite of peoples of the Persian Empire: Greeks of Asia Minor, Egyptians, Babylonians, Iranians. Having defeated Darius III in the battle of Gaugamela, Alexander proclaimed himself king of Asia, claiming the right to rule the ...
witnessed the military conquest of the Persian Empire by the Macedonian army, the physical transit of the known world from the Danube to the Indus and the beginnings of the mass migration which was to expand the horizons of hellenism far into the Near East. In this book, Professor Bosworth ...
Alexander the Great's famous conquest of the Persian Empire was an act of conquering. For Casanova, on the other hand, a conquest was an act of seduction.
Alexander the Great's famousconquestof the Persian Empire was an act of conquering. For Casanova, on the other hand, a conquest was an act of seduction. Conquestderives from the Vulgar Latin word conquaerere, meaning 'to search for, procure by effort, or win.' In addition to its most co...
By 642, the Arabs controlled Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Syria, had invaded Armenia, and were concluding their conquest of the Persian Empire. It was at this point that Arab military expeditions into North African regions west of Egypt were first launched, continuing for years and furthering the ...
The Hellenistic period began with the considerable expansion of the Greek world through the Macedonian conquest of the Persian empire and ended with Rome becoming the predominant political force in that world. This new and enlarged edition of Michel Austin's seminal work provides a panoramic view of...
Alexander had become the leader of the Persian empire. Still with the dream to conquer the world he continued into Indus river valley which is now call Afghanistan and reached Punjab in 326B.C, where sadly his men convinced him that they had reached the end, the end of the world. ...
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While France is remembered for the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon at the end of the eighteenth century, we may overlook how Napoleon’s military plunder and wars of conquest included the collecting of art. Unlike the collecting practices of t
The Muslim conquest; of which Turks and Greeks were the major component, will lead to the creation of the last great Middle-Eastern Empire, that of the Ottoman Turks.The power and influence of the Turkic Ottoman Empire was pervasive in all areas until it's breakup just after World War I....