CLASS280 Lecture 7: Persia (ppt lecture and in class notetaking)
9 Aug 2015
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The persian wars the limits of empire and the birth of a greek world view. Struggles to maintain the empire until he abdicates in 630 bc. Failure monarch (nothing he could do, the empire itself was falling apart) Unifying chief (wisest man of the medes, wisest in judgement) Cyaxares (653 ca 645/ 617 585) (people in the north) Overrun by the scythians while recovered media and allied with babylon, then picks up attack on assyria. Defeats the assyrians at qablinu in 615 bc (didn"t destroy them) 612 bc: fall of nineveh (never occupied again) Attacks lydia in 590 bc (attack at halis river) Who started and why they went to war was unknown. On 28 may 585 bc the war ends. Eclipse of the sun on this date -> sign of the gods so they made peace. Astyages (585 550 bc) son of cyaxares. Married aryenis in 585 bc she is the daughter of king of lydia.
