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Sassanian Kings List & Commentary
The Sassanian Empire (224-651) was the greatest expression of Persian culture in the ancient world. It was consciously modeled on the earlier Achaemenid Empire (c. 550-330 BCE) which established Persian supremacy in the region and developed...
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Cultural Links between India & the Greco-Roman World
Cyrus the Great (558-530 BCE) built the first universal empire, stretching from Greece to the Indus River. This was the famous Achaemenid Empire of Persia. An inscription at Naqsh-i-Rustam, the tomb of his able successor Darius I (521-486...
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Zarathustra
Zarathustra (also given as Zoroaster, Zartosht, Zarathustra Spitama, l. c. 1500-1000 BCE) was the Persian priest-turned-prophet who founded the religion of Zoroastrianism (also given as Mazdayasna “devotion to Mazda”), the first monotheistic...
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Map of La Tène Culture
La Tène culture was a European Iron Age culture. It existed from about 450 BCE to the Roman conquest in the 1st century BCE. It was a successor of the Hallstatt culture and is generally considered one of the root cultures of the Celtic people...
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Map of the Urnfield Culture c. 1300 BCE
A map illustrating the spread and context of the late-Bronze Age culture in Europe known as the Urnfield culture by around 1300 BCE. The Urnfield culture is generally recognized as one of the root cultures of the Celts.
![Example of Salado Culture Pottery](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/10119.jpg?v=1618846201)
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Example of Salado Culture Pottery
The Salado culture is a term used by historians and archaeologists to describe a pre-Columbian Southwestern culture that flourished from c. 1200-1450 CE in the Tonto Basin of what is now the southern parts of the present-day US states of...
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Salado Culture Pottery
The Salado culture is a term used by historians and archaeologists to describe a pre-Columbian Southwestern culture that flourished from c. 1200-1450 CE in the Tonto Basin of what is now the southern parts of the present-day US states of...
![Painted Pottery from the Samarra Culture](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/2778.jpg?v=1618781403)
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Painted Pottery from the Samarra Culture
This partially broken painted pottery dates back to the Samarra culture, Mesopotamia, 6th millennium BCE. (The Sulaimaniya Museum, Iraq).
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Scythians
The Scythians were a nomadic people whose culture flourished between the 7th and 3rd century BCE in a territory ranging from Thrace in the west, across the steppe of Central Asia, to the Altai Mountains of Mongolia in the east. This covers...
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Cat Statue from the Nok Culture
A human-headed cat statue from the Nok Culture. From modern-day Nigeria. 500 BCE to 200 CE. (State Museum of Egyptian Art, Munich, Germany).