HIST 010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Medes, Zoroastrianism, Zoroaster
10 Oct 2016
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Biggest empire yet: egypt to india. Perisnas were subjects of assyria: assyrian empire fell apart due to. Breakdown in the economy rebellion: indo-european people. Related to greek, hittites, romans: migrated to middle east. Nineveh (assyrian capital) was destroyed but coalition of subjects: median, lydians, babylonians, and egyptians, very few assyrians survived downfall. Establishment of power balance: 4 major states ruled by lydia, media, egypt, and babylonians, most powerful states after 612. Most empires are conquered over the short period of time: usually in the lifetime of one great king, snowball effect: O(cid:374)(cid:272)e (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:395)ue(cid:396)ed, it"s easie(cid:396) to (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:395)ue(cid:396) othe(cid:396) peoples (546 b. c) persians conquer lydia: lydians attacked first. Darius (521-486: conquers india, first time persian armies cross into europe, reaches greatest territorial extent. Persian did have writing but did not write history: most of what we know about persians come from the greek, greeks were enemy of persians and did not know much.
