originsimpactscyruspersian起源empire 1WritingAboutHistory:ExplanationsCopyright©HoughtonMifflinCompany.Allrightsreserved.TheOriginsandImpactsofthePersianEmpireTheoriginofthePersianEmpirecanbeattributedtotheleadershipofoneman—CyrustheGreat.AbrilliantandpowerfulPersianking,Cyrus’strategyforenlargingthePersiankingdomwastoco...
After the fall of the Roman empire in the 5th century, the Greek and Roman passions for aromatics, baths and massage was purged and almost disappeared in Europe. The damage had started earlier when Constantine (274-337 CE) became the first Christian Roman Emperor, who transformed Christianity f...
Zoroastrianism was an ancient religion established by the prophet Zoroaster. It is one of the earliest monotheistic religions in the world, and up to the Muslim conquest of Persia in the 7th century, it was the official religion of the Persian Empire. Cl
The Persians of Aeschylus, describing the invasion of Athens by a huge Persian fleet in 480 and its defeat in the naval battle of Salamis, is such a play. However, tragedy is, strictly speaking, neither historical nor mythological; it is a poetic drama in the sense that poetry rises above...
The beginning of the final Hellenistic phase coincided with the death of Alexander and the incorporation of the Persian Empire into the Greek world. Stylewise, classical realism was superceded by greater solemnity and heroicism (exemplified by the massive statue "The Colossus of Rhodes", the same...
Recently developed tools of intertextual analysis show that the dialogues in the Book of Job were in effect echoes of major debates in the early to middle Persian Period about the worth and responsibility of the individual in the new Judaism scattering throughout the empire. They expose the ...
The Persian empire fell to the Moslems in the 7th century. Many worried chess would be banned by the "Qur'an" an Islamic law banning gambling. Chess become very popular after their theologians decided that chess playing wasn't contrary to the teachings of Mohammed. This decision took about ...
In these ripping yarns written from 1957 to 1975 by the UK fans John Owen and Stanley Nuttall (writing as Hurstmonceaux and Faversham), the awesome figure of Sir William Makepeace Harrison bestrides the world like a Roman-nosed colossus. The British Empire’s last unflinching bulwark against Na...
Satraps were governors of provinces of ancient Achaemenid and Seleucid empires. The satrapies was the name of those provinces. Shahanshah Shahanshah is the name of the "king of kings" to Persian emperors. Theraveda Buddhism This is the more conservative sect of buddhism that is more concer...
Although the Persian Empire had long since fallen under Muslim rule, at the end of the first millennium the renowned poet Ferdowsi, wishing to claim a culture that could not be forgotten, produced the ambitiousŠhāh-nāma(Book of Kings).[48]In it, he included stories about the glories of...