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	Armenia (region) - Search View - MSN Encarta
		In 612 bc Armenia was conquered by Media, which ruled it until 549 bc.
		Cyrus the Great, king of Persia and founder of the Persian Empire, seized the country in 549 bc, whereupon it became a satrapy of Persia.
		These satrapies were independent kingdoms from 190 bc until 94 bc, when Tigranes the Great, king of Armenia, reunited them under his rule.
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	Persian History
		In 549 BC, Cyrus the Great united the Medes and Persians in the Persian Empire, conquered Babylonia in 538 BC and restored Jerusalem to the Jews.
		Alexander the Great conquered Persia in 333 BC, but Persians regained their independence in the next century under the Parthians, who themselves were succeeded by Sassanian Persians in 226AD.
		Modernization began in the early 20th century, and in 1935, Persia was officially renamed IRAN by Shah Pahlavi.
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	Pravda.RU:Jews and Arabs: four thousand years of conflict
		The Egyptians rules the territory for 500 years, between 1700 BC and 1200 BC, the golden age of Ancient Egypt.
		This arrogance led to the division of the territory into the kingdom of Judah, with its capital in Jerusalem and the kingdom of Israel, whose capital was Samaria.
		From 721 BC to 587 BC, the territory belonged to the Assyrians and from 586 BC to 549 BC, to the Babylonians.
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	The Royal Book of Esther
		Esther’s parents must have died sometime between 597 BC and at a time sufficiently before the third year of the reign of Ahasuerus to make it necessary and important for Mordecai to intervene on her behalf by helping to raise her.
		549 BC This would be counted as the first year of the reign of Cyrus king of Persia (see footnote concerning the explanation of 2 Chron.
		However, it does fit 539 -538 BC, when we consider that this is the first year of Cyrus as king of Babylon, and it was from Babylon that the Jews were freed to return to Jerusalem.
	www.israelofgod.org /esther.htm (4094 words)

	Iransaga - Persian Art, The Medes and The Achaemenians
		The frustrating absence of remains attributable to the Medes is in marked contrast to the succeeding Achaemenians.
		The Achaemenian period may be said to begin in 549 BC when Cyrus the Great deposed the Median king Astyages.
		Cyrus (559-530 BC), the first great Persian king, created an empire extending from Anatolia to the Persian Gulf incorporating the former realms of both Assyria and Babylonia; and Darius the Great (522-486 BC), who succeeded him after various disturbances, extended the boundaries of the empire further still.
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	CalendarHome.com - 6th century BC - Calendar Encyclopedia
		The 5th and 6th centuries BC were a time of empires, but more importantly, a time of learning and philosophy.
		Solon of Athens, one of the Seven Sages of Greece (638–558 BC).
		Pisistratus, Tyrant of Athens in 561, 559–556 and 546–528 BC.
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	Haggai
		In the year 586 BC the southern kingdom of Judah fell to the Babylonians, and the city of Jerusalem was reduced to ruins, along with the Temple.
		In 549 BC Cyrus (who had become king of the Persians about ten years earlier) defeated the Median king and united the Medes and Persians.
		The altar of sacrifice was restored and the foundation for the new Temple was laid.
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	Nabonidus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nabonidus, whose relationship with the previous Chaldean Kings of Babylon is unclear, came to the throne in 556 BC by overthrowing the youthful king Labashi-Marduk.
		In 549 BC he left Babylon to live at Tayma, a rich oasis city in Arabia, leaving his son Belshazzar behind to rule the empire in his stead.
		In 539 BC, according to the Hebrew Bible, while Belshazzar and the nobles of the empire were feasting and drinking from the chalices from the Hebrew Temple of Jerusalem, a hand wrote an unknown Aramaic text on the wall: mene, mene, tekel, parsin.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nabonidus (409 words)

	Macedonia
		It was moreover one of the oldest and most important cities of Asia Minor, and until 549 BC, the capital of the kingdom of Lydia.
		It stood on the northern slope of Mt. Tmolus; its acropolis occupied one of the spurs of the mountain.
		In 334 BC it surrendered to Alexander the Great who gave it independence, but its period of independence was brief, for 12 years later in 322 BC it was taken by Antigonus.
	www.pilgrimtours.com /greece/info/sardis.htm (1872 words)

	ANE History: Persia
		The first mention we have of the Persians is on a tablet recording the expedition of Shalmanesser III into a country called Parsua, in the mountains of Kurdistan around 837 BC.
		549 BC), the Medes welcomed Cyrus' victory and accepted him, almost without protest, as their new king.
		Since the river passed under the city walls and through the city, when the water was diverted, his army was able to enter the city easily by simply walking along the now dry riverbed.
	www.theology.edu /lec24.htm (2122 words)

	Babylonia - Code of Hammurabi - Crystalinks
		This is chiefly derived from a chronological tablet containing the annals of Nabonidus, supplemented by another inscription of Nabonidus where he recounts his restoration of the temple of the Moon-god at Harran; as well as by a proclamation of Cyrus issued shortly after his formal recognition as king of Babylonia.
		It was in the sixth year of Nabonidus (549 BC) that Cyrus, the Achaemenid Persian "king of Anshan" in Elam, revolted against his suzerain Astyages, "king of the Manda" or Medes, at Ecbatana.
		A year before Cyrus' death, in 529 BC, he elevated his son Cambyses II in the government, making him king of Babylon, while he reserved for himself the fuller title of "king of the (other) provinces" of the empire.
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	The Intertestamental Period - Lesson 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In 549 BC, he appointed his son (Belshazzar) to rule the city of Babylon and ruled form Teima in the Arabian Desert.
		According to the historian Josephus, when the Roman general Pompey captured Jerusalem in 63 BC he inspected the holy place and reported that there was nothing there but a golden table, the sacred lampstand, the libation vessels, and a great quantity of spices.
		In 442 BC, Nehemiah returned to Persia but came back to Jerusalem in 430 BC He discovered that there was a place furnished for Tobiah the Ammonite in the Temple, Nehemiah ordered his possessions thrown out and the Temple purified.
	www.harding.edu /USER/elrod/WWW/westside/lesson05.htm (1246 words)

	zoroast1
		His son Cambyses and later on Darius (522-486 BC) enlarged his lands to the borders of Thrace, Egypt, Central Asia, and the Indus Valley.
		His son Alexander took over the kingdom in 336 BC and in the following 13 years Alexander captured all the Persian dominions, and encouraged Greek type dominions.
		Following his death in 323 BC the Empire was divided into three separate entities: Macedonian empire, Egyptian empire (Ptolemes were in charge), and Seleucid empire.
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	Cyrus the Great - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Cyrus overthrew Astyages, king of the Medes, sometime between 559 BC and 549 BC He entered Ecbatana and, taking over the Median kingdom, began to build a great empire after the Assyrian model.
		He defeated and captured Croesus (546 BC), and Lydia became a satrapy under the Persian government.
		The Chaldaean empire of Babylonia fell to Cyrus in 538 BC He did not conquer Egypt, but he prepared the way for later Persian victories there.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-cyrusg1re.html (538 words)

	Darius I of Persia Summary
		Not only did he have the duty of avenging the burning of his city of Sardis during the revolt, but he must have become convinced that to ensure the quiet of his Greek subjects in Asia Minor he would have to extend his rule also over their brothers across the Aegean.
		549 BC– 485/486 BC; Old Persian Dārayawuš: "He Who Holds Firm the Good"), was the son of Hystaspes and Persian Emperor from 521 BC to 485/486 BC.
		But the first expedition, that of Mardonius, failed on the cliffs of Mount Athos (492 BC), and the army which was led into Attica by Datis in 490 BC was beaten at the Battle of Marathon.
	www.bookrags.com /Darius_I_of_Persia (2548 words)

	Histroy of Iran
		After a series of victories over the Lydian king, Croesus, in 546 BC, and after his successful campaign against the Babylonians in 539 BC, Cyrus established a large empire stretching from the Mediterranean in the west to eastern Iran, and from the Black Sea in the north to Arabia.
		He was killed in 530 BC during a campaign in the north-eastern part of his empire.
		But Cyrus followed him, and in an historic battle in 546 BC on the open plains of Hermus defeated the Lydians using the now famous ruse of covering the front of his army with camels, the smell of which terrified Crosus' cavalry and made them unusable.
	www.farhangsara.com /cyrus.htm (2453 words)

	Media - Medes - Crystalinks
		By 612 BC their strength had grown to the point where under the leadership of King Cyaxares (625-585 BC.)they launched a successful attack against the Assyrian capital of Nineveh.
		According to the 5th Century BC Greek historian Herodotus, Cyaxares renewed the war with the Assyrians after his father, Phraortes, had been slain in battle.
		In 550 BC the Medes were overthrown in turn by the forces of Cyrus the Great, founder of the Achaemenid Dynasty.
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	6th century BC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		September 13, 509 BC - The temple of Jupiter on Rome's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September.
		501 BC - Confucius is appointed governor of Chung-tu.
		Pisistratus, Tyrant of Athens in 561 BC, 559 BC–556 BC and 546 BC–528 BC.
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	540s BC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		546 BC - Croesus, Lydian king, is defeated by Cyrus of Persia near the River Halys.
		543 BC - North Indian Prince Vijaya invades Ceylon and establishes a Sinhalese dynasty.
		543 BC - Death of Thales, Greek philosopher.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/549_BC (304 words)

	Hillside Hotel, Jordan's historic highlights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		3000-1550 BC: The Canaanites settled in the Jordan Valley.
		1550-1200 BC (The Bronze Age): Settlements exist in Wadi Araba, Sahab and the Amman Citadel.
		1200-330 BC (The Iron Age): The Moabites, the Adomites and the Ammonites settled in the area.
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	Medes (International Standard Bible Encyclopedia) :: Bible Tools
		It was perhaps owing to the need of being able to resist Assyria that about 720 BC the Medes (in part at least) united into a kingdom under Deiokes, according to Herodotus (i.98).
		Yet there was no Median empire (such as he describes) then, or at least it did not embrace all the Aryan tribes of Western Asia, as we see from the inscriptions that in 606 BC, and even later, many of them were under kings and princes of their own (compare Jeremiah 25:25; Jeremiah 51:11).
		Kyaxares warred for 5 years (590-585 BC) with the Lydians, the struggle being ended in May, 585, by the total eclipse of the sun foretold by Thales (Herodotus i.74).
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	Islamic arts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The ruins of Persepolis, the massive ceremonial palace complex built in the Achaemenian era, and the ruins of the Sasanian structures are evidence of a rich background in architecture (figure 1).
		There are older examples of arts from this region, dating back to 6000 BC, which present friezes with various symmetrical constructions and rosettes of numerous cyclic and dihedral groups [3].
		Maspero writes that the Chinese achievements in the third and fourth centuries BC, especially in astronomy and geometry, were due to information that they received from India and especially from Persia [4].
	www.mi.sanu.ac.yu /vismath/reza1 (2731 words)

	Culture of Iran
		In 549 BC, the Persians, led by Cyrus the king of Anshan, rebelled, defeated the Medes, and founded the Achaemenian Empire.
		Anshan is the old oriental name for the center of the eastern part of the Elamite Empire on the southwestern upland, in a region that roughly covers the territory the Persians later gave their name, Parsa.
		The Macedonian domination of Iran lasted until the mid-second century BC, when simultaneous pressure from the east (Parthia) and the west (Rome) weakened their rule and they were defeated by the Next Iranian dynasty, the Parthian or Arsacid after Arsaces, the founder of their dynasty.
	www.cultureofiran.com /b_history.php (2233 words)

	Persians - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
		The Persians had indulged less in luxury than the Medes, until their conquest of Media and other lands under Cyrus the Great gave them the opportunity, which they were not slow to embrace, being famed for their readiness to adopt foreign customs.
		After a reign of 7 months, the usurper was overthrown and slain by Darius and his 6 brother-nobles (their names in Herodotus iii.70 are confirmed with one exception in Darius' Besitun Inscription, column iv, 80-86).
		Arses was murdered by Bagoas 3 years later, when Darius III, Codomannus, the son of Sisygambis, daughter of Artaxerxes II, and her husband, a Persian noble, ascended the throne.
	www.studylight.org /enc/isb/view.cgi?number=T6823 (1558 words)

	Finance Choices - Personal Finance Wiki
		Old Persian name for Cyrus the Great's kingdom which belonged to the Persian tribe of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranians and which can still be found in the term Pars or Fars as part of the heartland of Iran and for example in the map by Eratosthenes and other historical or modern maps.
		The Arg-e Bam citadel, built before 500 BC Darius' first capital was at Susa, and he started the building programme at Persepolis.
		He built a canal between the Nile and the Red Sea, a forerunner of the modern Suez Canal.
	www.financechoices.co.uk /personal-finance-wiki.php?title=Iran (6073 words)

	Achmetha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		It was founded or rebuilt by Dēiokēs (Dayaukku) about 700 bc on the site of Ellippi an ancient city of the Mandā, and captured by Cyrus 549 bc who brought Croesus there as captive (Herodotus i.153).
		It was the capital of the 10th Nome under Darius I. Cyrus and other Persian kings used to spend the two summer months there yearly, owing to the comparative coolness of the climate.
		It stood on a hill, where later was built a temple of Mithra.
	holycall.com /biblemaps/achmetha.htm (735 words)

	Iran
		The Iranians, who supplanted an earlier agricultural civilization, came from the E during the 2d millennium BC; they were an Indo-European group related to the Aryans of India.
		Alexander the Great conquered Persia in 333 BC, but Persians regained their independence in the next century under the Parthians, themselves succeeded by Sassanian Persians in 226 AD.
		Arabs brought Islam to Persia in the 7th century, replacing the indigenous Zoroastrian faith.
	kd.dynip.com /marvel/iran.htm (602 words)

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