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The Scythian campaign of Darius I was a military expedition into parts of European Scythia by Darius I, the king of the Achaemenid Empire, in 513 BC. [6] The Scythians were an East Iranian-speaking people who had invaded Media, revolted against Darius and threatened to disrupt trade between Central Asia and the shores of the Black Sea as they lived between the Danube and Don Rivers and the ...
Animal Farm is a satirical allegorical novella, in the form of a beast fable, [1] by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. [2] [3] It tells the story of a group of anthropomorphic farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy.
Scythian campaign of Darius I; M. First Mithridatic War This page was last edited on 18 August 2018, at 13:34 (UTC). Text ...
The army then marched through Thrace, re-subjugating it, since these lands had already been added to the Persian Empire in 512 BC, during Darius's campaign against the Scythians. [45] Upon reaching Macedon , the Persians forced it to become a fully subordinate part of the Persian Empire; they had been vassals of the Persians since the late 6th ...
The Massagetae displacing the early Scythians and forcing them to the west across the Araxes river and into the Caucasian and Pontic steppes started a significant movement of the nomadic peoples of the Eurasian Steppe, [37] following which the Scythians displaced the Cimmerians and the Agathyrsi, who were also nomadic Iranian peoples closely ...
Tomyris leads the Scythian civilization in the 2016 4X video game Civilization VI developed by Firaxis Games. [ 25 ] [ 26 ] Washington D.C.-based, female-fronted, heavy metal band A Sound of Thunder , features a song titled "Tomyris," based on the historical figure, on their sixth full-length album It Was Metal released in 2018.
The Greeks under Histiaeus preserve the bridge of Darius I across the Danube river. 19th century illustration.. According to Herodotus, [2] Histiaeus, along with the other Chiefs/Tyrants under Darius' rule, took part in the Persian expedition against the Scythians, and was put in charge of defending the bridge that Darius' troops had placed across the Danube River.
The Scythian name has been tentatively suggested by Ferdinand Justi and Josef Markwart to have been composed of the Iranian term *Vinda(t)-"finding, attaining" or *Vidant. [1] [2] However, the Iranic sound /d/ had evolved into /δ/ in Proto-Scythian, and later evolved into /l/ in Scythian. [3]