Examples of Median Empire in the following topics:
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- Under Cyrus the Great and Darius the Great, the Achaemenid Empire became the first global empire.
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Achaemenid Empire, c. 550-330 BCE, or First Persian Empire,
was founded in the 6th century BCE by Cyrus the Great, in Western and Central
Asia.
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the 7th century BCE, a group of ancient Iranian people had established the
Median Empire, a vassal state under the Assyrian Empire that later tried to gain its
independence in the 8th century BCE.
- Around 550 BCE, Cyrus II of Persia, who became known as Cyrus the Great,
rose in rebellion against the Median Empire, eventually conquering the Medes to
create the first Persian Empire, also known as the Achaemenid Empire.
- Cyrus II of Persia,
better known as Cyrus the Great, was the founder of the Achaemenid Empire.
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- The Persian Wars (499-449 BCE) were fought between the Achaemenid Empire and the Hellenic world during the Greek classical period.
- The Lydians of western
Asia Minor conquered the cities of Ionia, which put the region at conflict with
the Median Empire, the precursor to the Achaemenid Empire of the Persian Wars
and a power that the Lydians opposed.
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553 through 550 BCE, the Persian prince Cyrus led a successful revolt against
the last Median king Astyages and founded the Achaemenid Empire.
- Nonetheless, the Ionian Revolt remains
significant as the first major conflict between Greece and the Persian Empire
as well as the first phase of the Persian Wars.
- During this campaign, Mardonius re-subjugated Thrace and forced Macedonia
to become a fully submissive client of the Persian Empire, whereas before they
had maintained a broad degree of autonomy.
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- The Assyrian Empire was a major Semitic kingdom, and often empire, of the Ancient Near East.
- Following the fall of the Akkadian Empire, c. 2154 BCE, and the short-lived succeeding Sumerian Third Dynasty of Ur, which ruled southern Assyria, Assyria regained full independence.
- However, a shift in the Assyrian's dominance occurred with the rise of the Middle Assyrian Empire (1365 BCE-1056 BCE).
- Additionally, during this period, Assyria overthrew Mitanni and eclipsed both the Hittite Empire and Egyptian Empire in the Near East.
- After its fall (between 612-605 BCE), Assyria remained a province and geo-political entity under the Babylonian, Median, Achaemenid, Seleucid, Parthian, Roman, and Sassanid Empires, until the Arab Islamic invasion and conquest of Mesopotamia in the mid-7th century CE when it was finally dissolved.
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- In 609 BCE, the Egyptians attempted to save the Assyrians, who were losing their war with the Babylonians, Chaldeans, Medians, and Scythians.
- Egypt was joined with Cyprus and Phoenicia in the sixth satrapy of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, also called the Twenty-seventh Dynasty.
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- While the Western Roman Empire fell, the Eastern Roman Empire, now known as the Byzantine Empire, thrived.
- The Byzantine Empire, sometimes referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire in the East during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul, originally founded as Byzantium).
- Both "Byzantine Empire" and "Eastern Roman Empire" are historiographical terms created after the end of the realm; its citizens continued to refer to their empire as the Roman Empire and thought of themselves as Romans.
- Over time, the culture of the Eastern Roman Empire transformed.
- Just as the Byzantine Empire represented the political continuation of the Roman Empire, Byzantine art and culture developed directly out of the art of the Roman Empire, which was itself profoundly influenced by ancient Greek art.
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- According to Herodotus i.101, the Magi were the sixth tribe of the Medians (until the unification of the Persian empire under Cyrus the Great, all Iranians were referred to as "Mede" or "Mada" by the peoples of the Ancient World).
- The Magi appear to have been the priestly caste of the Mesopotamian-influenced branch of Zoroastrianism today known as Zurvanism, and they wielded considerable influence at the courts of the Median emperors.
- The religion would be professed many centuries following the demise of the Achaemenids in mainland Persia and the core regions of the former Achaemenid Empire—
most notably Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and the Caucasus.
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- The Parthian Empire began as a minor revolt against the Seleucid Empire, but became powerful and wealthy because they controlled major trade routes.
- The Seleucid Empire soon overextended itself.
- He founded the Parthian Empire in 247 BCE when he conquered the region of Parthia, then a satrapy (province) in rebellion against the Seleucid Empire.
- The Parthian Empire was also called the Arsacid Empire, after the Arscaid dynasty.
- The Parthians controlled the major trade routes between the Roman Empire and the Han Empire of China, which became the foundation of Parthia's wealth and power.
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