Persian kings

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Cards (266)

  • Cyrus' conquests
    Lydia, Medes, Babylon and the massagetae
  • Major rivers
    Tigris and Euphrates
  • Herotudus
    480-429 Bc
  • Capital of Persia
    Anshan
  • Capital of Medes
    Ecbatana
  • conquered medes
    553 BC
  • conquered lydia
    546 BC
  • conquered babylon
    546-539 BC
  • Hubris
    self-confidence
  • Lionised
    exceptional, celebrated
  • Self aggrandising
    boastful acting more powerful and important
  • HDT 79 = self dependant

    "indeed he was his own messanger"
  • HDT 78 = battle intellect

    "he did not for a moment suppose that cyrus after a battle would advance on sardis"
  • HDT 80 = leader, tolerant

    "adopt a suggestion of harpagus, one of the medes"
  • outcome of conquest of lydia on persians
    gained many riches and allies and cyrus to mercy on croesus
  • outcome of conquest of lydia on ionian greeks (lydia)

    they still had a leader croesus but lost loads of riches and army was depleted but stayed allies with persians
  • where is Herodotus from
    Halikarnassus
  • croesus' allies
    aegen islands, lesbos, chios, samos
  • which direction does croesus try and conquer
    east - towards persians (Cyrus)
  • how much money did croesus have ?
    870 lbs of gold
  • HDT 1.53
    "if croesus attacked the persians, he would destroy a great empire"
  • capital of lydia
    Sardis
  • HDT 1.115 wise, confident

    "they made me king, because they thought i was best to hold office... he took no notice of me until he was punished
  • HDT 1.115 noble
    "if i deserve to suffer for it i am ready
  • HDT 1.120 leader
    "did everything real kings do "
  • HDT 1.114 ruthless, father like son

    "beat him savagely with a whip"
  • HDT 1.120 protected by fate, born leader
    "touched by destiny"
  • Ethnography
    writing about a race, ethnically diverse
  • fragmentry
    pieces missing
  • river flowing into babylon
    euphrates
  • HDT 1.178
    babylon lies in a wide plain, a vast city the size of a square with sides nearly fourteen miles long and a circuit of some fifty-six miles, ... it surpasses in splendour any city of the known world
  • HDT 1.178
    A turning point in history, persians gained the levant lands as well, cyrus liberated babylon
  • gateway into babylon
    Ishtar
  • why is cyrus invited into babylon
    nabonidus is a tyrant and not religiously tolerant (marduk)
  • new persian capital ?
    Pasargadae
  • CC 11 divine mandate to rule

    "he took him by the hand"
  • CC 19 good leader, religiously tolerant

    "they joyfully celebrated him and honoured his name"
  • Isiah divine mandate to rule

    "cyrus whom he has taken by the hand"
  • ezra
    "let the cost be paid from the house of the king"
  • why did cyrus attack babylon 1
    massive trade hub