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- Persepolis (15450 bytes)
6: ...f Jamshid"). That they represent the Persepolis captured and partly destroyed by [[Alexander of Macedo...
8: ...akshi Rustam'' is expressly declared in its inscription to be the tomb of [[Darius Hystaspis]], concer...
12: ... would then belong to [[Artaxerxes II]] and [[Artaxerxes III]]. The unfinished one is perhaps that of [[Ar...
18: ...it was probably under this king, with whom the sceptre passed to a new branch of the royal house, that...
20: ...s that at least one of these, the castle built by Xerxes, bears evident traces of having been destroyed by... - Esther (5002 bytes)
2: ...ersia|Xerxes I]] or [[Artaxerxes II of Persia|Artaxerxes II]]), and heroine of the Biblical [[Book of Esth...
9: ...of the historicity of the [[Book of Esther]] attempt to derive the name from [[Ishtar]], the pagan god...
16: ...in their captivity, is also manifest from the Scripture account.
19: ...e to individual members of the Harem with the exception of domineering [[Queen consort]] [[Amestris]].
21: .... In addition phonetic difficulties exist in attempting to relate the names Esther and Ishtar, and ham... - Ancient Greece (23806 bytes)
2: ...s of what are now [[Albania]], [[Bulgaria]], [[Egypt]], [[France]], [[Libya]], [[Romania]], [[Spain]],...
15: ...ies", [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]] "Description of Greece", [[Diodorus]] "Bibliothiki" and [[J...
20: ...the Mycenaean script forgotten, but the Greeks adapted the [[Phoenicia|Phoenician]] [[alphabet]] to Gr...
24: ...Spain]]. Greek colonies were also founded in [[Egypt]] and [[Libya]]. Modern [[Syracuse, Italy|Syracus...
28: ...en in short order the other Greek city-states, adopted the formal practice of [[pederasty]], in an eff... - List of people by name: X (1295 bytes)
12: *[[Xerxes I]], ([[486 BC|486]]- [[465 BC]]), [[History of P...
13: *[[Xerxes II]], ([[424 BC|424]] - [[423 BC]]), Persian king... - Alexander I of Macedon (1759 bytes)
3: ...uring the invasion of [[Greece]] by Darius' son [[Xerxes I]], and he acted as a representative of the Pers... - Alexander the Great (42049 bytes)
6: ...Empire]], including [[Anatolia]], [[Syria]], [[Egypt]], [[Bactria]] and [[Mesopotamia]], and extended...
11: ...his mother descended from [[Aeacus]] through [[Neoptolemus]] and [[Achilles]].
23: ...eventually forcing his opponents, the mercenary captain [[Memnon of Rhodes]] and the Persian satrap of...
27: ...the Ptolemaic dynasty after his death. Leaving Egypt, Alexander marched eastward into [[Assyria]] (now...
29: ...sia, Bactria and [[Scythia]]. In the process he captured and refounded [[Herat]] and [[Samarkand]], an... - Silk Road (23757 bytes)
3: ...rranean Sea]] or through the [[Levant]] into [[Egypt]] and [[North Africa]].
16: ...There is evidence that [[Ancient Egypt|Ancient Egyptian]] [[explorers]] may have originally cleared an...
18: ...stan]] – as far as [[Mesopotamia]] and [[Egypt]] by the second half of the [[4th millennium BC]]...
22: ===Egyptian maritime trade===
23: ... the [[Fifth dynasty of Egypt|Fifth Dynasty]], Egyptians are returning with huge [[cedar]] trees. Sahu... - Acropolis, Athens (7462 bytes)
16: ...did not stop the [[Iran|Persian]] king [[Xerxes I|Xerxes]]' invading troops from conquering the Acropolis ...
18: ...s (460-430 BC). [[Phidias]], a great Athenian sculptor, and [[Ictinus]] and [[Callicrates]], two famou...
20: ...mple of [[Athena Nike]] started. After an interruption caused by the [[Peloponnesian War]], the templ...
30: ... of Athena Nike]]. A bronze statue of Athena, sculpted by [[Phidias]], originally stood at its center.... - History of the Kurds (8244 bytes)
5: ...r]] as to be placed in the early [[Cuneiform (script)|Cuneiform]] records on an equality with the othe...
9: ...ans" in the muster roll of the army of [[Xerxes I|Xerxes]] which [[Herodotus]] has preserved.
11: ...e and titles are still preserved in a Greek inscription at [[Behistun]] near the Kurdish capital of [[...
13: ...es of the caliphate against the southern Kurds, capturing the famous fortress of [[Sermaj]], of which ...
15: ...but as far as [[Khorasan]] upon one side and [[Egypt]] and [[Yemen]] on the other. - Persian Empire (26229 bytes)
11: ... of the Persians comes from an [[Assyria]]n inscription from c. 844 BC that calls them the ''Parsu'' (...
15: ...] defeated the forces of Astyages, who was then captured by his own nobles and turned over to the triu...
17: ...s halted at the [[Battle of Marathon]]. His son [[Xerxes I]] also tried to conquer Greece, but was defeate...
33: ...g all the troops of [[Darius III]] at Issus and capturing the capital at Susa. The last Achaemenid res...
41: .... King [[Antiochus III]]'s military leadership kept Parthia from overrunning Persia itself, but his s... - Greco-Persian Wars (5983 bytes)
5: ...l along the coast. In [[498 BC|498]] the Greeks captured and burnt [[Sardis]], thereby requiring a Per...
7: ...ds of the [[Cyclades]] surrendered, Eretria was captured, and the expedition landed in [[Attica, Greec...
9: ... to flank and destroy them. Following the defeat, Xerxes and his fleet retired to Asia, where a heavy rebe...
13: ...edition in [[450 BC|450]] failed to revive the Egyptian rebellion, and Cyprus was abandoned. - Cappadocia (7924 bytes)
10: ...[Elamite]] and [[Akkadian]] versions of the inscriptions contain a similar name.
20: ...ts in a servile condition, which later made them apt for foreign slavery. It was included in the third...
22: ... continuity of the native dynasty was only interrupted for a short time after Alexander's death, when ... - Achaemenid dynasty (14622 bytes)
2: [[Image:Ancient_eygpt-1.jpg|thumb|left|170px|Clipart provided by <br> [...
3: ...raq]], [[Turkey]], [[Bulgaria]], [[Greece]], [[Egypt]], [[Syria]], [[Pakistan]], [[Jordan]], [[Israel]...
5: ...t|Egyptian]] historians refer to the period in Egypt when the Achaemenid dynasty ruled as the '''Twent...
11: ... after seizing that city from the Elamites. Inscriptions indicate that when Teispes died, two of his s...
15: ...sassinated in 525, before starting out for his Egyptian campaign) until he was overthrown in 522 BC by... - Scuba diving (6342 bytes)
1: ...Breathing Apparatus", but it is grammatically acceptable to refer to 'scuba equipment' or 'scuba appar...
8: ... at night and made his way among all the ships in Xerxes's fleet, cutting each ship loose from its mooring...
16: ... full diving suits made of leather were used to depths of 60 feet. Air was pumped down from the surfac...
38: ...heat from the diver 25 times better than air. Except in very warm water, the diver needs the thermal i...
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