Achaemenid
Americannoun
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Achaemenids,
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Achaemenidae,
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Achaemenides
plural
noun
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Origin of Achaemenid
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It is not until the sixth century B.C., when Achaemenid Persians conquered Mesopotamia and much of the Eastern Mediterranean, that dimly perceptible Carthaginians come into view.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026
Even so, the surviving examples appear to span the reigns of Achaemenid emperors Darius, Xerxes, and Artaxerxes, covering 550 to 425 BCE.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 18, 2025
It specifically referred to the heartland of the Persian Empire, particularly during the Achaemenid period and has since evoked a sense of the country's ancient grandeur and cultural achievements.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2024
By 327BC, Alexander the Great had conquered the region and married a Bactrian woman named Roxana, after defeating the Achaemenid ruler.
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2024
This was the city that was burned by Alexander the Great during the Achaemenid dynasty three hundred years before Christ.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
To this royal family of the Achaemenidae Cyrus belonged.
From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 04 Imperial Antiquity by John Lord
They destroyed Nineveh in alliance with the Babylonians, and half a century later Cyrus took Babylon and founded the great dynasty of the Achaemenidae.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various
Before the battle of Ipsus, Mithridates, a Persian prince of the blood-royal of the Achaemenidae, had escaped to Pontus, and founded there the kingdom of that name.
From The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: from Marathon to Waterloo by Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy
After the death of Cambyses, the younger line of the Achaemenidae came to the throne with Darius, the son of Hystaspes, who was, like Cyrus, the great-grandson of Teispes.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
Darius, the son of Hystaspes, of the royal race of the Achaemenidae, succeeded.
From Outline of Universal History by George Park Fisher
The good Anchises rais'd him with his hand; Who, thus encourag'd, answer'd our demand: 'From Ithaca, my native soil, I came To Troy; and Achaemenides my name.
From The Aeneid English by Virgil
This passage Achaemenides had shown, Tracing the course which he before had run.
From The Aeneid English by Virgil
As against the Achaemenides, emulating the high Semitic culture of the West and the Hellenistic endeavours preceding the Parthian dynasty, the Sasanians pre-eminently were the promulgators of the Iranian principles.
From Iranian Influence on Moslem Literature, Part I by G. K. (Gushtaspshah Kaikhushro) Nariman
But whatever be the source of the Phoenician, that of the Persian system current under the Achaemenides is clear enough.
From Man, Past and Present by Alfred Court Haddon
The Achaemenids borrowed artistic traditions from the Mesopotamians to depict Ahura Mazda in the same way they styled their important gods.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
The rise of the Achaemenids in Persia around the time of the Buddha had produced the first truly global empire.
From New York Times ● May 11, 2020
The Achaemenids had waged war with Greece, inadvertently exciting the future ambitions of Alexander the Great.
From New York Times ● May 11, 2020
It was an ancient and sophisticated civilization of its own, by the Sasanian period already nearly eight centuries old under the Achaemenids, Seleucids, and Parthians in turn.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
Son of Cleombrotus, the illustrious Ariamanes, kinsman to Xerxes, and of the House of the Achaemenids, is so far versed in the Grecian tongue that I need not proffer my offices as interpreter.
From Pausanias, the Spartan The Haunted and the Haunters, an Unfinished Historical Romance by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
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