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...
Chandragupta was the founder of the Mauryan dynasty (reigned c. 321–c. 297 bce) and the first emperor to unify most of India under one administration. He is credited with saving the country from maladministration and freeing it from foreign domination.
Cyrus the Great—the leader of one such tribe—began to defeat nearby kingdoms, including Media, Lydia andBabylon, joining them under one rule. He founded the first Persian Empire, also known as the Achaemenid Empire, in 550 B.C. The first Persian Empire under Cyrus the Great soon became ...
Who was the founder of Pala distance? Gopalawas the founder of the Pala Dynasty. Pala administration, administering tradition in Bihar and Bengal, India, from the eighth to the twelfth century. Its organizer, Gopala, was a nearby tribal leader who rose to control during the eighth century duri...
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
The creative polymath Ashley Hicks’s artistic adventures in lockdown are enough to make even the most productive aesthetes quake in admiration. At home in the English countryside, for instance, he insouciantly transformed his bathroom with a fresco of figures after Michelangelo: He now describes...
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
The continuous troubles in the west caused Seleucid control in the far eastern part of the empire to weaken. In 280 Antiochus made his eldest son king in the east, but he proved incompetent. Between 266 and 261 Antiochus was drawn into a war with Pergamum, and in 262 he suffered a defea...
Zoroastrianism, ancient pre-Islamic religion of Iran with both monotheistic and dualistic elements that likely influenced the other major religions, including in angelology and eschatology. Zoroastrian communities still exist in Iran and in India, where
Fatimid dynasty, political and religious dynasty that dominated an empire in North Africa and subsequently in the Middle East from 909 to 1171 ce and tried unsuccessfully to oust the Abbasid caliphs as leaders of the Islamic world. It took its name from Fāṭimah, daughter of the Prophet ...