In Ancient Greece around 500-450 BC, the large Persian Empire wished to control Greece and through a series of vicious campaigns, the Greco-Persian Wars erupted. The outcome of this war is astounding as the rem
Before the 5th century BCE, the Greek city-states were engaged in conflicts among each other. The threat of invasion from the Persians temporarily unified the Greek city-states. The battles that ensued came to be known as the Greco-Persian Wars....
Humans domesticated dogs 12,000 years ago and have, ever since, involved the animals in their activities and pursuits, including war. The ancient Persians, Greeks, Assyrians and Babylonians all used dogs to great effect against their enemies. Fast-forward a bunch of centuries to the American ...
How were Darius I and Hammurabi similar? How was the Hellenistic empire similar to today? How did democracy arise in Ancient Greece? How was ancient Greece ruled? What type of government did Hellenistic Greece have? How was scholasticism different from the the philosophy of the Ancient Greek...
Cyrus the Great became ruler of the Persians because he did not want to be controlled by the meads and along with his nomadic warriors, he overtook them. Previously, the Medes had an Iranian religion of whom the Magi were like the priests of Persia and with their great architectural knowledg...
Social classes are a part of every society. The difference in the treatment of these classes is what separates societies. One of the first known instances of when the difference in the treatment of social classes became almost unnoticeable was when the Greeks fought the Persians. Men stood side...
The foods in both countries were influenced by the large number of interactions with other countries and cultures. In India, food has been influenced by the Persians, the British, the Greeks, and various Middle Eastern nations which introduced potatoes, tomatoes, kabobs, and pilafs. Mexican ...
The idea behind the Olympics was twofold: to exhibit the talents and development of young citizens and to bring Greeks together in a friendly, diplomatic setting. Not only were the games an athletic venue, they were also a time for political congress. In an unsettled and somewhat volatile ...
Hence, the combination of the two might mean “destruction by war,” which is what Xerxes has done by attacking the Greeks. An illustration of a scene in Aeschylus’ The Persians, which includes the difficult-to-translate word πολεμοφθόροισιν—“polemophthoroisin.” ...
what if the Persians do this, then this does that, et cetera, et cetera. And what Aristotle realized is there's a structure to those sentences, there's a structure to that rhetoric that doesn't matter whether it's the Persians and the Greeks or whether it's the cats and the dogs. ...