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	Cambyses - LoveToKnow 1911
		In the Persian tradition the crime of Cambyses is the murder of his brother; he is further accused of drunkenness, in which he commits many crimes, and thus accelerates his ruin.
		Cambyses had prepared for the march through the desert by an alliance with Arabian chieftains, who brought a large supply of water to the stations.
		Meanwhile in Persia a usurper, the Magian Gaumata, arose in the spring of 522, who pretended to be the murdered Bardiya (Smerdis).
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Cambyses (754 words)

	Persia - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Cambyses II, son of Cyrus, did away with Smerdis, another son of Cyrus, in order to have unchallenged power, but when Cambyses was absent on a successful raid into Egypt, an imposter claiming to be Smerdis appeared, and usurped the throne.
		The religion of Persia itself was Zoroastrianism, and the unity of Persia may be attributed in part to the unifying effect of that broadly established faith.
		When Darius II died, the most celebrated of the dynastic troubles occurred in the rebellion of Cyrus the Younger against Artaxerxes II, which came to an end with the death of Cyrus in the battle of Cunaxa (401 BC).
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-persia.html (2070 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Persia
		Persia proper is bounded on the north by Transcaucasia, the Caspian Sea, and Russian Turkestan; on the south by the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf; it is over one-fifth as large as the United States (excluding Alaska) and twice as large as Germany, having an area of about 642,000 square miles.
		During the early years of Sapor II the Christian religion received formal recognition from Constantine and there is no doubt that this identification of the Church with the Roman Empire was the chief cause of its disfavour in Persia.
		The invasion of Chosroes II was the severest blow that the Byzantine power in Asia had to endure, previous to the rise of Islam.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/11712a.htm (14926 words)

	Persia
		Persia proper was a tract of no very large dimensions on the Persian Gulf, which is still known as Fars or Farsistan, a corruption of the ancient appellation.
		Gomates, Cambyses' successor, reversed the policy of Cyrus, with respect to the Jews, and forbade, by an edict, the further building of the Temple.
		Persia was doubtless in early times included in Elam, and its population was then either Semitic or allied to the Accadians, who founded more than one state in the Babylonian plain.
	holycall.com /biblemaps/persia.htm (1071 words)

	History of Iran: Cambyses (Kamboujyeh)
		Cambyses successfully managed the crossing of the hostile Sinai Desert, traditionally Egypt's first and strongest line of defense, and brought the Egyptians under Psamtik III, son and successor of Ahmose, to battle at Pelusium.
		In 522 BCE news reached Cambyses of a revolt in Iran led by an impostor claiming to be Bardiya, Cambyses' brother.
		Cambyses has been rather mistreated in the sources, thanks partly to the prejudices of Herodotus' Egyptian informers and partly to the propaganda motives of Darius I. Cambyses is reported to have ruled the Egyptians harshly and to have desecrated the irreligious ceremonies and shrines.
	www.iranchamber.com /history/cambyses/cambyses.php (380 words)

	Cambyses (part one)
		Cambyses was the oldest son of Cyrus the Great, the first king of the Achaemenid empire (559-530).
		It is possible that Cambyses was now made satrap of Bactria; in the next two generations, every crown prince served in that region.
		Cambyses and a part of his army went to the south (524/523).
	www.livius.org /caa-can/cambyses_ii/cambyses_ii.html (1858 words)

	PERSIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Cambyses and Mandane were soon married, and shortly thereafter she became pregnant.
		While Cambyses was away on his Egyptian expeditions a member of the Magi, who knew of the secret assassination of Smerdis and whom Cambyses had left in charge of his household, devised an intricate plan.
		The guard also informed Cambyses that he had a reasonably clear idea of exactly what was going on, and he informed the king that the Magus (singular of Magi) that Cambyses left in charge of his household had a brother by the name of Smerdis.
	www.worldhistory1a.homestead.com /PERSIA.html (6707 words)

	Kingdoms of Persia - Persia
		Persia is conquered by Greek Empire and is ruled from Antioch, in Syria.
		Persia is liberated from Seleucid Greek rule by tribesmen who have drifted down to Parthia and Bactria.
		The Safavids established Shi'ite Islam as a state religion of Persia, which became a major factor in the emergence of a unified national consciousness among the various ethnic and linguistic elements of the country.
	www.kessler-web.co.uk /History/KingListsMiddEast/EasternPersia.htm (946 words)

	Dynasty 27 - Cambyses, Darius The Great
		In one, Cambyses II had requested an Egyptian princess for a wife, or actually a concubine, and was angered when he found that he had been sent a lady of second rate standing.
		Cambyses II had also planned a military campaign against Carthage, but this too was aborted because, on this occasion, the king's Phoenician sea captains refused to attack their kinfolk who had founded the Carthagian colony towards the end of the 8th century BC.
		Cambyses II had thought that the Persian summer capital of Ecbatana had been meant and that he would therefore die in old age.
	www.crystalinks.com /dynasty27.html (3833 words)

	Cambyses II of Persia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cambyses wants to marry a daughter of Amasis, who sends him a daughter of Apries instead of his own daughter, and by her Cambyses is induced to begin the war.
		His great crime is the killing of the Apis bull, for which he is punished by madness, in which he commits many other crimes, kills his brother and his sister, and at last loses his empire and dies from a wound in the hip, at the same place where he had wounded the sacred animal.
		Meanwhile in Persia a usurper, the Magian Gaumata, arose in the spring of 522, who pretended to be the murdered Bardiya (Smerdis) and was acknowledged throughout Asia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cambyses_II (1029 words)

	Egyptian Pharaohs : Late Kingdom : Dynasty 27 (Persian Period) : Cambyses
		Cambyses took the throne through war, by defeating the besieged city of Memphis and deposing Psamtek III.
		A revolt by his brother Smerdis in Persia called his attention and he left the ruling of Egypt to a satrap of Memphis, Ariandes.
		It should be noted that while Cambyses claimed control over all Egypt, other regional rulers continued to position themselves as "kings of Egypt" even if they only ruled over a small area.
	www.phouka.com /pharaoh/pharaoh/dynasties/dyn27/01cambyses.html (275 words)

	Discovered Stone Slab Proved to be Gate of Cambyses' Tomb
		The discovered slab was recently proved by archeologists to have been the entrance gate to the mausoleum of Cambyses II, son and successor of Cyrus the Great, founder of the Achameneid Empire (550-330 BC).
		Cambyses was the son and successor of Cyrus the Great who ruled the Persian Empire from the death of his father in 530 BC to his own death in Ecbatane (Syria) eight years later.
		Cambyses later personally led a force up the Nile to conquer Ethiopia, but after annexing the north of the country, he ran short of supplies and had to return.
	www.payvand.com /news/06/dec/1150.html (792 words)

	The Persians
		For convention's sake the name of Persia is here kept for that part of the country's history concerned with the ancient Persian Empire until the Arab conquest in the 7th century AD.
		Centered on the Persian homeland on the northeastern shore of the Persian Gulf, it stretched from present-day Pakistan in the east to the Balkan Peninsula in the west and from the Persian Gulf in the south to Central Asia in the north.
		His grandson Khosrau II reigned from 590 to 628; in 602 he began a long war against the Byzantine Empire and by 619 had conquered almost all southwestern Asia Minor and Egypt.
	history-world.org /persians.htm (3316 words)

	Persia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		When Darius II died, the most celebrated of the dynastic troubles occurred in the rebellion of Cyrus the Younger against Artaxerxes II, which came to an end with the death of Cyrus in the battle of Cunaxa (401
		B.C. Cyrus’ defeat was recorded in Xenophon’s Anabasis, and although the importance of Cyrus’ revolt may be exaggerated it cannot be denied that there were signs of decay in the empire.
		B.C., continued to revolt and the efforts of the armies of Artaxerxes II to reassert control were fruitless.
	www.bartleby.com /65/pe/Persia.html (1898 words)

	ParsPage History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		After the conquest of Egypt, a pretender claiming to be Bardiya seized the throne, and Cambyses either committed suicide or died accidentally in 522 while returning to Persia.
		AD 272, second Sassanian king of Persia (241-72), son and successor of Ardashir I, attacked Rome's eastern provinces, encouraged the establishment of the Manichaean religion, and promoted the growth of Zoroastrianism.
		Although the reigns of his immediate successors Ardashir II (379-83) and Shapur III (383-88) were weak and brief, Shapur's reign brought to theSassanian Empire a stability that enabled it to endure until the Arab conquest of the 7th century.
	www.parspage.com /history/shahs.htm (1136 words)

	Timeline Persia
		413BC Darius II, ruler of Persia, quelled a revolt in Lydia.
		The Sassanid kings of Persia (who had superseded the Parthians in the Empire of Iran) secured the lion's share of the spoils, while the Romans only received a strip of country on the western border which gave them Erzeroum and Diyarbekir for their frontier fortresses.
		1828 Russia conquered the Armenian provinces of Persia, and this brought within her frontier the Monastery of Etchmiadzin, in the Khanate of Erivan, which was the seat of the Katholikos of All the Armenians.
	timelines.ws /countries/PERSIA.HTML (4607 words)

	Cyrus the Great Summary
		The sudden emergence of Persia as the dominant power in the Near East is the most striking political fact of the 6th century B.C., while the conquest of Mesopotamia (Egypt was left for Cyrus's son Cambyses) marks the first time that a true Indo-European-speaking people had gained control of the old centers of civilization.
		Cambyses is considered by Herodotus and Ctesias to be of humble origin, but they also consider him as being married to Princess Mandane of Media, a daughter of Astyages, king of the Medes and Princess Aryenis of Lydia.
		Cyrus had two sons: Cambyses and Smerdis, as well as several daughters, of whom Atossa is significant, as she later married Darius the Great and was mother of Xerxes I of Persia.
	www.bookrags.com /Cyrus_the_Great (3214 words)

	My Lines - Person Page 224
		Cambyses II, King of Persia and Egypt was buried in Takht-i-Rustam, near Persepolis, Iran.
		Cambyses was returning to Persia and had reached Syria when he received the bad news of the revolt.
		Balakros Argaead was the son of Amyntas II Argaead.
	homepages.rootsweb.com /~cousin/html/p224.htm (5707 words)

	Persian Empire, Persopolis - Crystalinks
		Persia's earliest known kingdom was the proto-Elamite Empire, followed by the Medes; but it is the Achaemenid Empire that emerged under Cyrus the Great that is usually the earliest to be called "Persian." Successive states in Iran before 1935 are collectively called the Persian Empire by Western historians.
		As Persia assumed control over the rest of Media and their large Middle Eastern empire, Cyrus led the united Medes and Persians to still more conquest.
		Cyrus' son, Cambyses II, was next in line to rule.
	www.crystalinks.com /persia.html (2708 words)

	Ancient History Sourcebook: Accounts of Persian "Despotism" and Law,
		The second was the slaying of his sister, who had accompanied him into Egypt, and lived with him as his wife, though she was his full sister, the daughter both of his father and his mother.
		By them justice is administered in Persia, and they are the interpreters of the old laws, all disputes being referred to their decision.
		Cambyses, therefore, married the object of his love [Atossa, the mother of Xerxes], and no long time afterwards he took to wife another sister.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/ancient/persianlaw.html (581 words)

	Daily Bible Study - Ancient Empires - Persia
		Cyrus II, king of Anzan, united the nation, and conquered Media, Lydia, and Babylonia.
		His son, Cambyses, took Egypt, which was later ruled by Darius, the son of Hystaspes.
		Persepolis (see map) was an ancient city of Persia that served as a ceremonial capital for Darius and his successors.
	www.keyway.ca /htm2002/persia.htm (311 words)

	Cambyses - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cambyses, son of Teispes of Anshan, father of Cyrus I,
		Cambyses I of Anshan was a son of Cyrus I, and ruled Anshan from 600 to 559 BCE.
		Cambyses II of Persia was son and successor of Cyrus II (or Cyrus the Great) and had ruled Persia from 530 to 522 BCE.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cambyses (313 words)

	Persians, Rise Of Persian Under Cyrus
		Traditionally, three rulers fall between Achaemenes and Cyrus II: Teispes, Cyrus I, and Cambyses I. Teispes, freed of Median domination during the so-called Scythian interregnum, is thought to have expanded his kingdom and to have divided it on his death between his two sons, Cyrus I and Ariaramnes.
		Cyrus I may have been the king of Persia who appears in the records of Ashurbanipal swearing allegiance to Assyria after the devastation of Elam in the campaigns of 642-639 BC, though there are chronological problems involved with this equation.
		The rapidity with which his son and successor, Cambyses II, initiated a successful campaign against Egypt suggests that preparations for such an attack were well advanced under Cyrus.
	www.history-world.org /cyrusII.htm (923 words)

	ancient persia iran
		Cyrus's son, Cambyses, has died near Egypt and a usurper rules in the heartland." Read about and view some of the art work from the period following.
		__ "Cyrus was the first Achaemenian Emperor of Persia, who issued a decree on his aims and policies, later hailed as his charter of the rights of nations.
		The royal seals of Darius and Xerxes always depict a king victorious in his fight with ferocious animals or monsters, a scene also depicted in the royal reliefs." Here is a look at ancient Persia and the city of Persepolis as depicted on seals.
	www.archaeolink.com /ancient_persia_and_iran.htm (892 words)

	The Descent of Tefnakhte Shepses-re, King of Egypt
		Died in abt 610 B.C. 6 Necho II "Wehemibre" of Egypt
		Born in abt 600 B.C. Died in 529 B.C. in battle, fighting the queen of the nomadic tribe, the Massagetae.
		Born in 548 B.C. Died in 486 B.C. 11 Xerxes I "The Great", King of Persia b: in 521 B.C. Died in 465 B.C. He was murdered by one of his own soldiers.
	www.angelfire.com /ak/chrisclarksgenealogy/tefshep.html (179 words)

	Persia History Timeline
		539 BC Cyrus II of Persia invades and conquers Babylon and Phoenicia.
		521 BC Cambyses dies or is murdered, and is succeeded by his brother Smerdis.
		Phillip II of Macedonia decisively beats a comnbined force of Athenians and Thebens at the Battle of Chaironeia.
	members.ozemail.com.au /~ancientpersia/timeline.html (1956 words)

	Cambyses. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		According to Herodotus he married the daughter of the Median king Astyages; some scholars dispute this.
		His further plans of conquest in Africa were frustrated, and at home an impostor claiming to be Smerdis raised a revolt.
		Cambyses died, possibly by suicide, when he was putting down the insurrection.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ca/Cambyses.html (152 words)

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