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The Rise of the Persian Empire: Professor Matt Waters on Ancient Empires and Cyrus the Great

Tides of History

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The Importance of Empire in the Assyrian Empire

There is a really complex imperial ideology that's going out. That's being pushed from the center out to the peripheries. So what did that consist of? Like how were these kings justifying their rule over this massive geographic area? I mean, if we go back to the where we started in a sense, you know, we're mentioning three empires in succession,. Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian.

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