What did the first pharaohs of the New Kingdom expand? How did the Hittite Empire survive and grow? How did the Umayyads build a unified empire? How did the Persian Empire affect Egypt? How did the Assyrian Empire develop? How did Egyptians regain territory under Ramesses?
How did Darius govern the Persian Empire? What did Sparta do after winning the Peloponnesian War? How did Darius unify the Persian Empire? How did the Greeks respond to the Persian Empire's expansion? How did Pericles expand the Athenian Empire?
. At the beginning of the 19th century, the use of these expressions is recorded to name young men who practice male prostitution and/or robbery, attracting men of good standing with their charms, to pick them clean or take them to a trap where theirTantesorChanteurs(pimps) did the rest....
When the game of shah arrived in Europe centuries later, the Persian name was Latinized as scacus. In various Latinate languages, that became scacchi in Italian, schach in German, échecs in French and chess in English. There's an even more direct Persian connection to the chess term "...
Alexander the Great: 6 Key Battles and a Siege Here’s how Alexander, one of history's most iconic military leaders, grew the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia and conquered the Persian Empire. Read more Did Alexander the Great Arrange His Father’s Murder? Philip II of Macedon's bodyguard...
Athens’ democratic period also coincided with the city-state’s tightening of its control over what was originally a voluntary alliance of Greek city-states, but had now become an Athenian empire. The city-states had their own governments, some of which were influenced by Athens’ democratic sy...
How were the three major Hellenistic kingdoms different? Hellenistic Period: The Hellenistic period is one that spans from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE to the Battle of Actium in 31 BCE and is a period marked by Hellenic kingdoms ruled by Alexander's generals after his death....
Iran marked the anniversary of 2,500 years of continuous monarchy since the founding of the Persian Empire by Cyrus the Great. His White Revolution, a series of economic and social reforms intended to transform Iran into a global power, succeeded in modernizing the nation, nationalizing many nat...
Did he make these demands regardless of the pressure under which he was putting Antipater and without regard for the lives of his people and the security of his kingdom from external threat? And if so, how did the people feel and how did they react?
Empire of Contingency: How Portugal Entered the Indo-Persian WorldJorge Flores