The drama, in 12 parts, was first published in1910andfocuses particularly on Akbar’s son, Salim, who as Jahangir(Persianfor“Conqueror of theWorld”) ruled the MughalEmpirefrom1605 until 1627. wdl.org wdl.org 这部剧分为 12 个部分,首次出版于 1910 年,着重描写了阿克...
Cyrus the Great was the founder of theAchaemenid Dynasty(c. 550-330 BC), the first imperial dynasty of thePersian Empireand the world's largest empire before that ofAlexander the Great. Was the Achaemenid truly a family dynasty? It is possible that the third main Achaemenid ruler Darius inve...
Artaxerxes, Ardasir, and Bahman. (ancient Persian King Artaxerxes II; founder of ancient Sasanian Empire; Kayanid King; three figures who influenced the development of the Zoroastrianism religion in Iran)Arjomand, Said Amir
Achaemenes was the eponymous ancestor of the Persian Achaemenid dynasty; he was the father of Teispes (Chishpish) and an ancestor of Cyrus II the Great and Darius I the Great. Although Achaemenes probably ruled only Parsumash, a vassal state of the kingd
attributable in part to his establishment of an excellent administration patterned on that of the PersianAchaemenid dynasty(559–330bce) and after Kautilya’s text on politics,Artha-shastra(“The Science of Material Gain”). Chandragupta’s son,Bindusara, continued to expand the empire to the ...
Seleucus I Nicator was a Macedonian army officer who founded the Seleucid kingdom. In the struggles following the death of Alexander the Great, he rose from governor of Babylon to king of an empire centering on Syria and Iran. Seleucus was the son of Ant
Gaozu (born 566, Chang’an [now Xi’an, Shaanxi province], China—died 635, Chang’an) was the founder and first emperor (618–626) of the Tang dynasty (618–907). Although Gaozu claimed to be of Chinese descent, his family was intermarried with nomadic tribes of North China. As ...
The Seleucid empire began losing control over large territories in the 3rd century bce. An inexorable decline followed the first defeat of the Seleucids by the Romans in 190. By that time the Aegean Greek cities had thrown off the Seleucid yoke, Cappadocia and Attalid Pergamum had achieved inde...
the two Nāsatyas. All of these gods also are found in the Vedas but only the first one in the Avesta, except that Indra and Nāñhaithya appear in the Avesta as demons; Varuna may have survived under another name. Important changes, then, must have taken place on the Iranian side, ...
but it was delayed, it is said, at the request of the caliph’s mother, who wished to make a pilgrimage to Mecca first; and her honourable treatment by the local ruler, Kafūr, when she passed through Egypt induced the caliph to postpone the invasion until after Kafūr’s death in 968...