Persia

Tried to take Massagetae

Cyrus captures Spargapsies

Spargapsies kills himself

Tomyris wins

Tomyris kills Cyrus

Queen of Massagetae

Tomyris’ son

Gardens had a water system

Stone pillar with angel on it

Palace S used for entertainment

Palace P used for living

Zendan (tomb)

Horse drowned on the way there in river Tigris

Spent the summer draining river a punishment

Marched in peacefully and took Babylon

The Oracle of Delphie told Croesus it would be ok to battle Cyrus

They meet in Pteria

Croesus retreats for winter

Cyrus follows

Cyrus takes Lydia

Harpagous was angry after his feast

Astayages made Harpagous in charge of the army

Harpagous turned Astayages’ troops against him

The army brought Astayages to Cyrus

King of Lydia

Mandane urinates over Asia which represent Cyrus’ takeover

Vines spread from Mandanes Vagina

Cyrus’ mother

Astayages told Harpagous to kill Cyrus when Cyrus was a baby

Harpagous swapped Cyrus with a stillborn baby and raised Cyrus

Astayages fed Harpagous his stillborn son out of revenge

Freed the Jews

Told the armies to stay stay away from temples in Babylon

Allowed people to keep their religions

Media, Lydia, Asiatic Greeks, Babylon and Levant

Freed the Jews

Allowed people to keep their religion and culture

559-530

Cyrus asked Amasis for an eye doctor so Amasis sent the best eye doctor in Egypt

The eye doctor was unhappy about this

Cambeyses asked Amasis for his daughter

Amasis sent a different girl

The eye doctor snitched to Cambeyses and Cambeyses went to war

Phonecians and desert arabs sided with Persians

Cambeyses marched there

Egypt surrendered

Plans were made by Cyrus

Etheopians canabalism

Carthaginians Phonecians didnt want to fight their people

Ammonians sand storm

Cambeyses lost battle and came back to egypt

Saw people celebrating the Apis bull

Killed the Apis bull because he thought they were celebrating his loss

Accidently stabbed himself in the thigh

King of egypt

Killed the Apis bull

Stopped Egyptian religious festival

Egypt but used Cyrus’ plans

Failed Etheopia

Failed Oasis at Ammon

Killed the Apis bull

Stopped Egyptian religious festival

530-522

The Persians sacked Didyma a religious place

Ionions had democracy

Put Persia in a better place to take Greece

499

Aristagoras persuaded Darius and Artaphines to invade Greece

Campaign didnt work

Lead the Ionion revolt to try and scare Persia

Asked for help-Spartans said no, Athenians and Eretria gave ships

Greeks sacked Sardis and burned temple

The only rebel success was in Caria

Rebels were killed

Darius’ brother/Satrap of Lydia

Leader of Miletus

513

Darius took army to Bosporus river

Bridged over the water and left Ionions to guard bridge

Cat and mouse chase Scythians burned land whilst moving

Scythians got back to the bridge and tried to convince the Ionions to cut the bridge down

Ionion didnt cut it down

Persians went home

River between Asia and Europe

Asked Macedon, Thrace, Lesbos and chios for earth and water and they submitted

Fake Smerdis reigned for months

Otanes,Darius and five other nobles over threw fake Smerdis

They rode horses out of the city and the first to neigh after the sun rose would be king

Darius won

492

Darius sent people to Greece to ask for earth and water

Everyone submitted except Athens and Sparta

Athens and Spartans killed messangers

Darius appointed Datis and Artephines to take Greece

Sacked Naxos, gave Delos frankinsense as it was holy and took Eretria

Organised Persia into Satraps run by Satrapies

Made Persepolis, rebuilt Susa and bult royal road

Took over the Indus valley and big parts of Greece

The royal road had stops every 15 miles

Persians had archers Greeks didnt

Persians had a good Cavalry Greeks didnt

Persians didnt like to fight close Greeks did

Persians used immortals Greeks didnt

Persians had a bigger army than Greeks

Gave Delos frankinsense

Burned temples in Eretria and Naxos

Indus valley

Took down Babylonion revolt

Failed Scythia, Greece, Athens and Sparta

Gave Delos frankinsense

Burned temples in Eretria and Naxos

522-486

Day one - Delial league won

Day two - Athenians won battles in Pamphilya and at sea

Day three - Persians went home

An alliance made by some of the states in Greece

Greeks sent 7,000 men to block Persians

Xerxes sent troops and suffered big losses

Xerxes finds out about back path and kills the spartans

Xerxes decapitates Leonidus

Created a mile long canal to avoid sea monsters

Bulit two bridges of boats over the H111ellespont to avoid sea monsters

This happened after the messangers in Sparta and Athens were killed

Went to Naxos and took it easily, gave Delos frankinsense and took Eretria

They got to marathon and there was a short stalemate

The Persians split off some went to Athens and some stayed to fight

Persians lost

Nephew of Darius

Believed Ahuramazda chose him

Whipped a river and rivers are spiritual in Persia

Persian main God

Failed Greece

Didn’t attempt much

Killed someone because he was annoyed in front of their family

480

Sacked Athens and the temples

Greeks were in the bay of salamis on boats

Persians blocked exits from the bay

Persians would, have won but they misunderstood the currents