Tag: Ancient Persia

Ancient Persia was a vast empire that stretched from the Indus Valley to the Mediterranean Sea. It was founded by Cyrus the Great in the 6th century BC, and reached its peak under Darius I in the 5th century BC. The Persian Empire was known for its tolerant and inclusive culture, and its contributio...

The Persian Wars were a series of conflicts between the Achaemenid Empire and Greek city-states that started in 499 BC and lasted until 449 BC. The collision between the fractious political world of the Greeks and the enormous empire of the Persians began when Cyrus the Great conquered the Greek-inh...

Adab - One of the earliest Sumerian cities. Adad - The mesopotamian Weather God. He was the son of Anu and was derived from an earlier Sumerian God, Iskur. Agade - Mesopotamian City. It was the seat of government for Sargon the Great. Akkad - The northern part of Mesopotamia. Sumer was the southern ...