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Sunday, January 29, 2017

031 - Cyrus the Great

In this episode, we discuss the conquests (Lydia, Ionia, Babylon) and administration of Cyrus, whose deeds and qualities were so exceptional that he earned the moniker "the Great"


  • Video/Cyrus the Great Establishes the Achaemenid Empire

  • Video/The Rise of the Persian Empire

  • Photo/Battle of Thymbra (Formations and Attack)


Video/History of Battle - The Siege of Sardis (546 BCE)
  • Photo/Vase Painting of Croesus on the Pyre
  • Map/Ancient Near East in 540 BC
  • Map/Cyrus' Invasion of Babylonia


Video/History of Battle - The Fall of Babylon (539 BCE)
  • Photo/"Nabonidus Chronicle"
  • Video/The Cyrus Cylinder and Modern Ideology

  • Photo/"Cyrus Cylinder"
  • Video/The Sparabara ("Shield Bearers" or Infantrymen)

  • Photo/Tomb of Cyrus the Great at Pasargadae
  • Map/Provinces of Persian Empire


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