First Civilizations - Ancient Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt (Second Edition) - Robert Chadwick
17 The Persians
First Civilizations - Ancient Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt (Second Edition) - Robert Chadwick
Robert Chadwick [+]
Bishop's University
Robert Chadwick is the co-director of the Wadi ath-Thamad Project and currently teaches in the Religion Department at Bishops University, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.
Description
This chapter shows how by the middle of the first millennium BC, a new group from the east -- the Achaemenids, the ruling dynasty of the Persian empire, wrested power in Egypt. Topics covered include: - the Medes and the Persians - Cyrus the Great - Camyses II and the conquest of Egypt - Darius I - administering the empire - Darius I in Egypt - Egyptian rebellion against the Persians - the Egyptian rebellion of 486 BC - the return of Egyptian independence