HISTORY 1M03 Lecture Notes - Achaemenid Empire, Cyrus The Great, Pasargadae
20 Apr 2014
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Sources on persians during war: literary, primarily greek, herodotus, retrospective evidence (art, archeology, inscription of behistun. Indo-european people: modern fars regions, related to medes (median empire) The achaemenids: 553 bce: persians overthrow median empire, cyrus ii (the great, achaemenid dynasty, pasargadae (capital city) Achaemenid timeline: cyrus the great (559-520 bce, annexation of lydia (incl. Ionian cities); babylon: cambyses (530-523, egypt, persian debate , darius the great (522-486, bactria, sogdiana, india, thrace. Persian army: comprises troops from across the empire, cavalry, archers, herodotus: persian boy taught three things > to ride the horse, shoot straight, and always tell the truth, the parthian shot . Ionian cities: puppet tyrants with persian support, miltiades (philaid), tyrant of chersonese, aristagoras of miletos, attempted to seize naxos with persian hel, seeks help from mainland greece, cleomenes of sparta, athens and eretria: 25 ships. Initially successful: burning of sardis, persian naval superiority, 494: battle of lade, destruction of miletos.
