1770 BC - The aged Belus, king of Babylon and father of the princess Formosanta, sends out a challenge of anyone who wishes to ask for his daughter’s hand in marriage: they must bend the bow of nearly-mythic Nimrod. Three kings came to try to bend Nimrod's storied bow, the ...
Cyrus achieved Persian independence and conquered all the lands of the Medes. This conquest put an end to the Median rule over the Persian people and began forming the largest empire seen up to that time. Cyrus was the first of a dynasty of kings called the Achaemenids. Cyrus was a ...
Darius III of Persia Bagoas’ actions helped to quicken the fall of the Persian Empire. This self-centered official wanted to rule the empire through weak kings and while he was trying to orchestrate this feat Persia’s primary enemy was already preparing to wipe them out. TheGreeksunderAlexand...
This question is not as easy as it seems. When looking atPredynastic artworks, the first thing that comes to mind is how different this art is from the more well-known, Dynastic art. It was at the end of the 4th millennium BCE whenthe first kingsof Egypt appeared, and a clear artisti...
Early Persian art included large, carved rock reliefs cut into cliffs, such as those found at Naqsh-e Rustam, an ancient cemetery filled with the tombs of Achaemenid kings. The elaborate rock murals depict equestrian scenes and battle victories. ...
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Alexander returns to Susa, the administrative center of the Persian empire. He conducts a mass marriage ceremony between Macedonia soldiers and Persian women. It is another attempt to unite the two cultures. He sends many veterans home with prizes and honors and begins to plan for further expedit...
Muslims, led by Ubaidallah b. Ziyad, Governor of Khurasan, make first major raid into Transoxiana. They reach Bukhara and after a short skirmish are bought off by the khatun (queen) and return to Merv. The kings of *Köngül and Kashgar visit Ch'ang-An to "surrender", i.e. probabl...
Sealand Dynasty kings appear to rule Babylonia after the Hittite raid. Almost noting is known of Babylonia for 150 years after the raid. Read More Timeline of the Persian Empire By N.S. Gill Kassite Period Mid-15th Century B.C. The non-Mesopotamian Kassites take power in Babylonia ...
Beginning in the 9th century B.C.E., numerous local rulers became virtually autonomous, and several declared themselves kings. Libyans from Cyrenaica took a dominant role, becoming kings by the second half of the 21st dynasty. Kushite rule over Egypt was established by the 25th dynasty [747-6...