Ancient Persia
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Published: August 18, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9781860646751
Subjects: Ancient Near East; Asian / Middle Eastern history: c 500 to c 1500; History - General History; History; Textbooks; History: World; Persian Empire; Ancient - General; History / Ancient / General
First sentence: How did it happen that in the sixth century BC a Persian dynasty was able to establish a world empire on the soil of the ancient Near East - an empire that stretched as far east as the Indus and as far west as Egypt, and was to become a model for future Iranian dynasties?